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USB external CD-ROM drive Fr Dell Netbook Inspiron Mini

USB external CD-ROM drive Fr Dell Netbook Inspiron Mini
by sunvalleytek

Our Price: $5.61
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Category: CE
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Manufacturer: sunvalleytek
Product features:

USB CDROM drive
Specifications: 24X CD-ROM Max,Buffer size: 128KB
Support disk format: CD-ROM/XA?CD-DA?CD-I?Karaoke-CD?CD-Plus?Photo-CD?Video-CD?CD-Extra?CD-R?CD-RW
Interface: USB2.0 (Compatible with USB1.1),Color: Black case
Work with any laptop and desk pc with USB port,Full 6 months warranty!

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Customer Review: Fine, but you can't boot off of it.
Summary: 4 Stars

I bought this so that i could boot off of it to install a better version of Ubuntu Linux than what Dell ships on the Inspiron Mini 10v. After putting both USB and CD drive at the top of the boot list in the BIOS, the computer still won't boot off of it... (Though once the computer has booted, it recognizes the drive just fine, so if that's what you need i think this would be a fine product).

If you do want to install a new Linux OS (Ubuntu or otherwise), what you should do is buy a 2+ Gigabyte USB thumb drive. Then use "UNetbootin" ( [...] ) to put the installer for your desired operating system onto the USB drive. Then you can boot from the USB drive (again, with some changes to boot order in the BIOS--press F2 during the start up screen to get there) and everything just works.

I used the Windows version of UNetbootin since the site said the Windows version tends to work better. Then everything worked and i could boot into and install Ubuntu without a hitch. Magic.

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Description of USB external CD-ROM drive Fr Dell Netbook Inspiron Mini

Features: 1. External slim CDROM Drive 2. No external power adapter required, powered by USB. 3. Plug & Play, travel easily 4. Hot-swapping capability 5. Support windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista Package Includes: 1 pc CDROM drive, 1 pc USB data cabel, 1 pc USB Power Cable (PS2). Unit dimension: 160 x 137 x 19mm USB data cable: 60cm USB power cable: 60cm Fit Laptop Models: Work with any laptop and desk pc with USB port ACER Aspire One A110 series laptop, ACER Aspire One A150 series laptop, ASUS EEE PC 700 series laptop, ASUS EEE PC 900 series laptop, ASUS EEE PC 1000 series laptop, DELL Latitude C400 series laptop, DELL Latitude D400 series laptop, DELL Latitude D420 series laptop, Dell Insprion Mini 9 series laptop, HP Compaq NC4000 series laptop, HP Compaq NC4200 series laptop, HP Compaq NC4400 series laptop, HP Mini 1000 Series laptop, HP Mini 2133 Series laptop, IBM ThinkPad X20 series laptop, IBM ThinkPad X30 series laptop, IBM ThinkPad X40 series laptop, IBM ThinkPad X60 series laptop, IBM ThinkPad X300 series laptop, Toshiba Portege R100 series laptop, Toshiba Portege R150 series laptop, Toshiba Portege R200 series laptop.

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