dvd burner

[stammer]

Looking to purchase dvd burner. My pc has Ide drives. When I look at places like wal-mart they only have sata. I belive my mother board has 2 sata connecters on it. Question is would there be any problems with putting sata dvd burner in my pc since my the rest of my drives are ide. Or should i buy an external one. Seen a nice external (cant remember brand) at walmart with once touch copy.

[hellnoire]

IDE and SATA are normally incompatible, but you could look around some of your local PC shops and ask them for a SATA-to-IDE (or IDE-to-SATA) bridge, which will allow you to run a SATA drive via your IDE ports.

[stammer]

My motherboard has two seperated sata connecters along with the ide connecters: if i hook up a sata dvd to the mother board will that still make it incompatable. Just asking because i dont wasn to waste my money and time hooking up something that will not be compatable with the rest of my system.
Any have any experience with external dvd burners?

[hellnoire]

I've used them too, and had good luck with MOST of them. It's the ones without software you have to watch out for, as they often stink.

[stammer]

I quess I will try my luck with the external dvd burner. First I will check the brand then do some online research on it. Aslo make sure it has the sofware with it. I kind of like the one touch/button copy feature it has. Any one have any thoughts about the one touch copy feature. (good idea or bad idea?)

[hellnoire]

I honestly don't use it but it sounds to be a good idea.

[stammer]

If i do get it. I post back with new thread? Tell how it works (the goods and bads if any).

[hellnoire]

Sure, I don't see a problem with that.