Hi out there, my toshiba lappy satpro 4600 is a little bit of old and just came with a cd reader. I'd love to upgrade to a dvd writer. any ideas how to accomplish this? no newer bios than from 2002 available, though. Regards, alex
Hi out there, my toshiba lappy satpro 4600 is a little bit of old and just came with a cd reader. I'd love to upgrade to a dvd writer. any ideas how to accomplish this? no newer bios than from 2002 available, though. Regards, alex
Get a Belkin USB2 PC-card on eBay for <US$20 and an external DVD drive with USB2 connection. Or simply make your own using a regular DVD writer and USB2 external drive case. You will not have the processing power to do video authoring or editing, but can certainly "write" to DVD's as you please.
It's mostly a matter of finding a compatible DVD burner drive WHICH MAY NOT EXIST. The issue isn't electrical -- IDE notebook DVD burners obviously do exist -- the issues are mechanical -- mounting, connectors and bezel (plastic front piece). I was able to covert a 2805 from DVD only to "combo" drive (DVD read/CD-RW burn), and I'd like to upgrade my 1415 in the same way that you want to upgrade tyour 4600, but I have not done a search of available drives to see if there is one that would work. In fact, sometimes the only way to find out is to try it, and that can get very expensive very quickly.
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