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Upgrade Guide

Want to burn your own discs? Here's how to install a CD-Rewritable drive, step by step.

  

Set Jumper, Connect Cables, and Mount an Internal CD-RW Drive

Check your CD-RW drive and make sure its jumper is set to master. If you plan on continuing to use your CD-ROM drive, set its jumper to slave. You may have to remove and then replace the CD-ROM drive to do so.

Slide your new CD-RW drive into its bay and screw in its mounting screws. Then connect its data cable. Make sure the cable's colored (usually red) wire goes to the pin nearest the power connector (some data cable connectors have a piece of protruding plastic to prevent connecting in the wrong direction). Then connect the power cable to the CD-RW drive. Lastly, if your CD-RW drive came with an audio cable and your sound adapter has a free connector (on the sound card or on the motherboard if your adapter is integrated) for its end of the cable, attach one end of the audio cable to the connector and the other end to the CD-RW drive. If the sound adapter has no free connectors and you don't mind losing sound from your CD-ROM drive, disconnect the CD-ROM drive's end of the audio cable and connect the cable to your CD-RW drive. Leave the cover off your PC until you're sure everything's working correctly. Go to Step 6.

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