Question Is an external disc drive compatible with my laptop?

[abbarich]

Hi, I've got a Lenovo Ideapad 100 which has an inbuilt disc drive which has recently become faulty after much use. Would an external disc drive be compatible with this laptop? Thanks.

 

[Lafong]

"Compatible"?

You mean to put Windows on an external and boot from it?

Not likely.

For data only, not Windows? Yes.

 

[abbarich]

No nothing like that. I just want to burn files onto a dvd-r or a cd-r.

 

[BFG-9000]

Even USB 2.0 is sufficient for a DVD at 24x.

But I expect most people would just replace the internal drive instead because that's cheaper.