I've used many USB DVDRW externals over the years but once in a while I will hit a PC that balks. So I have to use internal, USB or another way.
Do you think such issues are going to spell the end of the PC?
Bob
Hi all,
I just purchased this little disc drive since I don't have one in my case. Normally I have to take the sides of my case and hook up a traditional disc drive to install Windows which I'm sure you'll agree is a pain.
So, I bought the external drive from the title and plugged it in all ready to do a re-installation of W7 which I thought would be hassle free. I was wrong.
Non stop errors including Bootmgr is missing, not creating the 100mb partition for sys files then error, installation copying/expanding works then error pop ups (2 different ones). I tried using different usb ports, the ones at the front, the ones at the back and usb 3.0 ones too. All seemed to give me an error of some sort (for the record the usb ports work fine with everything else).
After throwing in the towel I took the sides off my pc and plugged in my old dvd drive and Windows installed first time, no issues at all.
Is there something I should be doing in the bios to get this drive working or is this a known issue with installing Windows from an external drive? The only reason I bought the thing is to save me some hassle but it's been more hassle than the old method so far ![]()
Thanks for reading and any replies.

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