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Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« on: June 11, 2010, 11:19:50 AM »
Gentelman,
Please excuse my sheer ignorance on the matter, but let me tell you what i need. If anyone can help its greatly appreciated.
I just ordered the dell mini posted on dansdeals http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/7827 .
what i need now is a piece where i can both play a cd/dvd and also be able to burn it on to the mini. I am looking for cheapest piece out there.
Any suggestions?
Thanks alot!

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2010, 11:46:31 AM »
So to clarify, you are looking for a deal on a portable external CD/DVD drive?

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 11:49:17 AM »
Do you have another pc to burn on to flash drive or sd card?

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2010, 12:20:39 PM »
So to clarify, you are looking for a deal on a portable external CD/DVD drive?

if thats  what it is. would that also burn the cd/dvd onto the mini?

Do you have another pc to burn on to flash drive or sd card?

no. well, not one that can be used. i have some study cd/dvds which i want to use but would prefer to burn them onto the mini

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2010, 01:30:01 PM »
if thats  what it is. would that also burn the cd/dvd onto the mini?

I think the word you're looking for is "rip" not burn. And yes, if you have a drive connected to a computer, you could copy the contents of the media on to it (depending on how protected the media is).

no. well, not one that can be used. i have some study cd/dvds which i want to use but would prefer to burn them onto the mini

What you might need is CD image mounting software which basically makes a virtual copy of the CD on your computer, which can then be read on a "virtual drive", meaning that you don't really have to have the CD or the drive present. This works best with software CD's. For music or videos, it is easier to rip them to a simple format (.mp3 .avi etc.) and save them on your computer like that.

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2010, 01:34:39 PM »
if thats  what it is. would that also burn the cd/dvd onto the mini?

no. well, not one that can be used. i have some study cd/dvds which i want to use but would prefer to burn them onto the mini
Burning is when you create a CD or DVD. If I understand you correctly, you would like to copy the cd/dvd onto the netbook. Let me set forth the issues you may find:

1. You cannot copy a dvd as data you must have special program to rip.
2. Your netbook may not have a dvd player.
3. You must have an external drive.
You might want to refer to here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/7042#comment-62061

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2010, 01:55:53 PM »
Burning is when you create a CD or DVD. If I understand you correctly, you would like to copy the cd/dvd onto the netbook.

You might want to refer to here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/7042#comment-62061

As I stated in my comment....

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2010, 02:08:40 PM »
As I stated in my comment....
as he stated in his comment  ::) ::) ::)

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Re: Playing and burning dvds and cd on netbook
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