I have an urgent need for an external DVD burner (current burner on PC broken). I would like to pick up a DVD burner with a USB 2.0 connection (2.0 only because that is all that is available). My question is that since the PC with the broken DVD burner is old, it may have USB 1.0 ports. Will the External USB 2.0 Burner work with a PC that has USB 1.0 ports.
yup, like said above, it should work, as USB 2.0 is backwards compatible, but you probably will be burning VERY slowly. BTW, I like your sig Phantom (no I won't steal it...lol) what did you use to make it?
if a desktop computer & not a laptop than can get a pci combo card that has both usb & firewire connectors on it.
Macromedia fireworks... or you could use paint and just compile an animation with another program... at the moment i have swithced to the GIMP because it easily matches every single commercial program available and you can download an animation plugin for it, which i did... as a bonus, i have got the GIMP on both OSs on my dual boot system (Fedora core 4 and XP)so i can use whichever i feel like...
Hey, thanks for all the advice. I was in WI with my father-in-law, and we were trying to move all of his files and data off of his old computer onto his new computer -- and his CD burner was not working (could read, but couldn't write -- it wouldn't even recognize the CD as being in the drive when trying to write). We just had USB 1.1 on a Windows 98 system (yes, that old). We ended up getting a Lite-On USB 2.0 External Drive AND we also picked up a USB 2.0 256 MB Lexar Jump Drive for 15 bucks at Office Max. It turned out that the Jump Drive was all we needed. We couldn't get all the right driver software to support it, and we encountered a driver error every time we used it, but it worked anyway -- you could store data on it in spite of the error, and that is all we needed. We ended up returning the External hard drive as we didn't need or use it. Thanks for the help.
