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CDRW drives bootable?

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yata

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Can I use say Plextor or Yamaha 8x CDRW to boot? To replace a regular CD drive, and just having one CD drive on the comp?
 
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Does anyone has this kind of setup? Disadvantage is too much usage on the burner, but it's only reading not burning discs. What do you think, when CD burners are a hundred bucks now and a decent CD-rom drive costs at least 50?
 
Yes they are bootable and I dont see any problems just using one drive. Burning cd's will take a little extra time since you cant burn copies on the fly like other with a two drive systems on seperate ide channels.

Rain
 
Great. Appreciated. Down this goes, and off I go getting a brand name burner, 'cause a nice Teac CD-rom costs 60 bucks.
 
I unfortunately have a cheap burner (who could say no to less than $90 a year and a half ago to a rewriter) that's only a 24X CDROM. It was horrible as a cdrom. I rarely got a cd to rip right off of it. Now as a burner, its been great. One coaster in all that time. I went out and bought a DVD drive to add to the system. Would have just bought a cheap cdrom if this deal hadn't come up.
 
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