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[wade 486DX266 LAPTOP]

[b]hi just wonderin i bought a laptop off a man on ebay and he said this when i asked about shovin in a cd-rom in it.

If yer handy with making adaptors, you could pretty easily make a cable adapter and patch an IDE cable in between the HDD and a full size cd-rom.

i need help with doing this so if you have any info please tell me or e-mail or msn wadejwilliams@hotmail.com

If you need to know anything about the laptop go to ebay austalia and in item search type in 8701955493

Model number: SKD-4000
wadejwilliams@hotmail.com

[Nikson]

Going by appearances, I think you can't be helped by anyone on a forum. Either find a professional to install the CD-ROM for you, or give up.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Laptops - even this old - usually have some external floppy / CD drive or at least some socket for plugging one. Altough finding a working unit would be a different thing...

[Ioncannon]

hmm, I know of these cases where you slap in IDE drives (CD-ROM, HDDD) and then plug that into a serial port or USB port, maby try those?

[Neo Decoy]

There are converter cables from desktop components to laptop, but if you dont know what your doing, dont even think about it - having a large wire coming out of a laptop isnt preferable for new users.

[efthimios]

If you don't know what you are doing then you are taking a big risk of either destroying your laptop or even endangering yourself.