HAY GUYS

Soluzar · Local time: Aug 22, 2007, 01:14 AM

You could always buy a new optical drive. A brand new DVD-RW drive doesn't need to cost more than $40 bucks which is not exactly a large sum.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Soluzar · Local time: Aug 22, 2007, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by ComradeTande

it'd have to be external, since its a smaller dell that really wouldn't fit an internal into it :\ isn't that more expensive?

Substantially more expensive, yeah. Don't bother with that option. Instead... how about you open up the case and just connect the DVD drive from another computer to the IDE connection and power connector inside your Dell. It will probably have to sit outside the case for the duration of the installation, but it won't come to any harm as long as you are careful.

I don't know about these smaller Dell cases, but I bet they have standard IDE cables and standard molex power connectors. Unless it's a laptop of some kind.

There's nowhere I can't reach.