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Dell E510 Missing CD & DVD Drives...nothing is working yet...

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  • mdrvnsa May 28, 2009

    I had to reinstall my OS. when done, my computer no longer shows or reads either the CD or the DVD drives. I tried every idea I found on here so far and nothing works...anyone know where I can get the driver for the stock cd/dvd drives for a Dell E510?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    You don't have the CD/DVD combo in the laptop is that it ????
    and what are you trying to do ????

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You can buy that type of hardware anywhere since it is standard for all desktop. Your current drive is IDE meaning that the data cable on it is an IDE type.
Go to your local computer store and ask for a DVD writer IDE, since there is really no price difference now for a combo or dvd writer drive, it will be like 10 $ more for the writer. I live in canada so if you are in the US could be less here a DVD writer is around 35 $ at a computer shop.

Here is the spec of your computer just in case :

Dimension E510

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