Cd Drive Computer Not Working Windows 8

Replaced a failed drive on an older computer running Windows 7. It's quiet and working flawlessly. I'm very pleased with this unit so far. (It's only been about a month at this point.)

8GB SDRAM is much better than 4GB in my DELL desktop computer.

As many of the other reviewers of this product mention, I too went to search for a driver. After wasting time doing that, I realized that when I restarted my computer, it just magically recognized the device and when I inserted a DVD, or CD, I was able to burn them to my computer. It seems to work on my Windows 7 and Mac operating systems just fine. I have a MacBook Pro without a built-in CD/DVD drive, so this works nicely. I am running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 (mac) and Windows 7 in Parallels and have been able to burn discs nicely. I would advise forgetting about the usual driver headache that we come to expect when we get new devices and if your computer does not recognize/"see" the device in Finder (mac) or Explorer (windows) when you first plug it in, try a restart and try to plug it in and start playing with it! Sometimes we like to complicate things that do not ask to be complicated...at least that was my experience.

Solves the problem of new computer not having a CD/DVD drive, at a reasonable price.

I used it as a second drive for Windows 10 on my Ubuntu computer. There were no problems with the drive itself

Works great...I got a new Apple computer and it didnt have a CD drive. I needed a CD drive/burner, so I ordered this one and it is great! Small, compact if I should need to carry it with me. I recommend it highly!

From what I can tell so far, my hard drive is working very well. I love having the extra storage on my computer.

This plugged into the external drive and the computer and started working just fine.

I need CD blanks to first backup my computer, in case of external/internal hard drive failure. And to copy/burn and to store relevant data. So I choose Verbatim because they are highly reliable and I have had success with them before.

Got an older computer that can't connect to 5G? Is your WIFI signal weak and a bit unstable? The TP-Link Archer T4U Plus is the answer. Reasonably priced and very easy to install if you have a DVD/CD drive built in. If you don't have a DVD/CD drive you can easily download the driver...still a snap.