How to Install an Optical Drive into a Desktop PC

Replacing or adding a CD/DVD drive into your desktop computer is relatively easy to do, here's how!

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[Daftboy]

This should be a training video for everyone who makes instructional videos. Clearly articulated, a minimum of irrelevant content, and good visuals. Well done and very helpful. Thank you.

[geeyouknit]

Now I can finally watch my old shrek DVD’s

[thatsupermon]

This was so helpful! i just found out that you could install your own cd rom on prebuilt computer and this helped so much! I would recommend over other tutorials(?)

[greenleafycabbage]

You should make amazing videos not only computers. Man you have a rare voice

[rockrill]

Ta nice and easy video to check if things have changed since I last did one, and it had, with the blue-ray cable to board position

[Darkbdlz]

this is an amazing video it was both funny and informative thanks

[prabal]

I usually don't comment but man ohh man I ly thanks the tutorial was super simple!!

[scathachbeagbain]

Hi! I found your tutorial after trawling through Google and I love how easy to understand it is! I have a question regarding the SATA cables. My disc drive is a bluray drive and it didn't come with any cables, just the drive itself. In the tutorial you have two SATA cables it looks like that you plug in but only one of them goes to the motherboard - did you plug the other one into the PC power supply? I asked a tech friend of mine who confused me with a lot of things and said that I would need loads of different items in order to install it 😅 I'm glad that isn't the case!

[JohnWOler]

Thank you for helping me and not goofing off.

[krisreed]

Help!! I've lost a cd in my Dell XPS8930..the tray comes out but not the CD. Is there a half way decent way to get into that optical drive on this model in order to retrieve that CD?

[macedonianlad]

That case design is pretty clever by emachines [for the hidden optical drive]

[neatodd]

Is it OK to share the same power cable with another device. For example, I have a sata power cable connected to a SSD. It has multi connectors on it so I used one for power to the optical drive. Is there any danger of overloading the cable with too many devices connected?

[IvarsBezdechi]

I previously had two cd/dvd IDE drives in my Dell 9150 computer. I am clueless on the jumper Master/Slave/Cable Select settings. The computer also has a regular hard drive. HOw do I set up the computer so it boots up again with CD/DVD drives correctly set up. - Clueless in San (BTW, your video and your voice over work is great. What microphone are you using?)

[antoineconroy]

Do you need a optic board placed into the modem in order to connect fiber optic to the wifi

[devandreraseala]

Hey. Im using my old laptop dvd drive... would it be able to work if I use the power supply cable?

[-WarEagle-]

So, you don't need to connect an HD audio cable to go to the sound board like back in the day anymore? Sounds just automatically appear when trying to watch a Blu-Ray movie? Not sarcastic, simply stupid since I haven't built a PC since 2006. Thank you.

[kruelxd]

Question, I have an optical drive in my pc but I’m getting a hard drive, can I disconnect the cables from the optical drive and use them for a hard drive

[BboyIllusin]

Curious on the cable hookup for a blu-Ray/dvd combo optical drive? I’m New to computers and I want to add an optical drive that can play blu-rays and dvds cuz I have a big library (I like physical copies of movies; it’s fun to collect) of movies that would be pretty cool to watch on my desktop that I’m going to build soon. What cables are necessary to hook it all up is all I’d like to know.

[JayzBeerz]

you know of any good cases for optical drives?

[americaman]

YES FINALLY I can play some fs13 titanium edition