My poor old laptop, held together by nothing more than chewing gum and string has taken a turn for the worse. The little switchery thingy that lets the comp know the draw is shut has made a leap for freedom and ejected itself with the last cd I removed so basically the internal CD/dvd player is beggered.
All is not lost as I have a functional external USB CD RW so I can install stuff if necessary but the question is...
If I need to format the hard drive, will my laptop recognise the external CD player when I need to re install windoze?
Presumably I would need to install drivers in dos for the USB port after formating and also for the external USB CD/RW, if so how do I go about doing that?
Please Help
Currently running Win ME/ using compaq presario (about 3 years old)