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19384 2001-09-25 00:41:00 Could someone please tell me what sort of specs my PC needs in order to run a CD writer?
I have an old Pentium 166 with 64MB RAM running Win95.
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19385 2001-09-25 01:11:00 You should be fine with an older drive, eg 4x

Maybe 8x if you system supports DMA mode.

The thing to check is if you system can achieve the throughput needed for the drive. Try a disk speed benchmark, and compare it with the stated requirements.
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19386 2001-09-25 06:33:00 Hello James,

Also you really need a minimum of 850MB of free Hardrive space, any less than this can cause severe problems when running in disk image mode or copying full cd's.

Alan
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19387 2001-09-29 14:42:00 Well Ive got an old P100 I use as a test machine it has a 1.2gig HDD and it writes Ok only slow but it does them Ok. a 166 will be fine just don't try to write at too high a speed Like:-
Do it once do it slow do it right.
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