Neighbor handed over fence a dozen year old computer that is on Windows 95. It has a good working CD ROM reader/writer (Mitsumi CR-4802TE or is it a Toshiba CD-ROM XM-6102B) on it. This ought to save me a trip to the local electronics swap meet then. I would like to remove it and install into another computer running on Win. 98. You forsee any problems in this swap? It is running on Adaptec Easy CD Creator and will this work w/o problems in 98 then? Or is there some sort of update that I ought to be aware of? also how to copy from one computer hard drive to another if I need certain elements then? Wm.

I'm going to be honest, I'm only about 5% sure what you are talking about. From what I gather, you are asking if you can remove a CD burner from one computer and put it in another. In which case, you can. There should be no problem. -Ryan Adams Free Computer Tips and more:http://RyanTAdams.com Paid Tech Support: Black Diamond

Not having a prolem in removing the CD-rom. The problem lies in will the software work in next computer, which is running Wind. 98 then? Wm.

It depends on which version of creator is on there. Most likely it is version 4 as Adaptec was sold to Roxio. The program is still around and is now in version 8 or 9 I believe. Versions 4 & 5 are not compatable with WinXP but should work fine with Win95. I used Adaptec 4 on Win98se for uite a while. You may have an issue if you try to use the software on a different drive as most of the versions were bundled with drives and were linked to only that model. BTW, if you have burning software with the drive it is probably not a CD-rom (rom= Read Only Memory).

It should William...if not, use something like Nero or NTI CD Maker. I've seen several versions of Adaptect and all of them worked on 95, 98, or Me. Now, if the 98 machine has cd recording software on it, just use whatever's there. There's no real software in a disk recorder; just a ROM (like a BIOS) so it knows it can play and record. No software is moved when you move the drive. If no burning program is on the 98 rig, you'll need to download or borrow one. All retail boxed drives come with one of the several burning programs available and most folks have more than one install cd lying around. Skip

If it is an IDE CD-ROM/CD writer, then it will work in Windows 98. Adaptec Easy CD Creator will work in Windows 98 without problems, but it's not going to do you any good on the hard drive of the freebie computer. Did your neighbor also hand the Adaptec installation CD over the fence? Your going to need that if you intend to install the Easy CD Creator on your Windows 98 computer. But, there are also numerous CD writing programs/suites which will run on Windows 98 and will probably work with the CD-writer (if it is an IDE/ATAPI device).

Skip.... I tried running the Mitsumi drive off the H-P Record-Now software, and it don't work. Get error messages that cannot find a recordable CD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM drive shows up on the bios at the POST check, but then going no where afterwards. The old 95 computer had the Easy CD on it, and it works OK to make up data disks. But, in the bag of software given to me, nothing noted as related to CD-rom on "anything". Not floppy disk nor CDrom disk. Wm.