Using DVD burners under win98 FE

[General Winters]

Wanting to replace my ancient cdburner (a plextor 12/1032a, tla# 0000) on my even more ancient PII, 350mhz system with a cheap dvd burner.

Many if not all dvd burners give system requirements as 98SE+

Given that I would be installing an internal IDE model (not a usb/firewire model) , would a dvd burner work under 98FE ? I assume like all other normal optical drives , only default windows drivers are needed , plus aspi and an authoring/burning program.

I don't care about the fact I would not be able to burn at full speed, indeed , currently with the cdburner I only use x8, and I would not be installing any bundled programs as I have Nero 6 and have no need to install other programs such as dvd video authoring programs.

So , in essence, I want to install a dvd burner, under win98FE to burn normal data disks and ghost images..

Will a drive that states it requires 98se+ still work, albeit at slow speeds?

[DrMDJ]

A dvd burner would work under 98FE just fine. From a hardware standpoint there is no real OS requirement, any are fine. The issue is one of software and whether the particular burning program supports the os. And in the case of 98FE there are products that support it (and dvd burning). And yes, only default type (windows provided) atapi drivers are needed along with a suitable set of ASPI drivers.

[General Winters]

Thanks, I always need a little reassurance when about to open my wallet and let the moths out !