A:AnswerHey there, Viper. This LG 8x External USB Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive SP80NB80 is compatible with Microsoft Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP and Mac OS X. ~Anthony
A:AnswerYou will need to contact the manufacturer for your Chromebook to inquire if it will work with external DVD drives or if the manufacturer has a list of approved or compatible DVD drives your Chromebook will work with. The short answer is yes, you can use an external USB CD/DVD drive with a Chromebook. There are some major limitations to using a Chromebook external DVD or CD drive. External devices are limited as to storage of readable files, and music files are not, without drivers, which cannot be installed on a Chromebook. ChromeOS users may best best off using an SD Card or External Hard drive.Chromebooks can read these disk types when using a proper external USB DVD/CD drive:
CD
CD-RW
DVD
DVD-RW
Blu-ray
Blu-ray RW
Chrome OS can read files on these disks if they are a supported file formats. This means you can easily open image or audio files in ChromeOS from files on a CD or DVD. However, there are some limitations that are discussed below. Notably, the Chromebooks do not have the necessary codecs to plays DVD files. You can connect a CD or DVD player on a Chromebook and use it read read data files if you have a disk written in data format above. Again, very important to stress this when using a Chromebook DVD drive:
You cannot play an audio CD or a movie on a DVD or Blu-ray.
You cannot write anything to a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disk.
Chrome OS does not support optical disks to let you play music or movies. The primary reason for this is that Chrome OS doesn’t come with codecs. Codecs are necessary to compress and decompress large files like DVD videos. If you want to play DVDs on your Chromebook, you’ll need to install Linux. Since there’s no official support, it isn’t surprising that some discs won’t work...^Ivan
A:AnswerHi, you can't play movie DVDs on Chromebook. You can use the connected DVD drive to access or read files from an appropriately formatted, recorded, and finalized DVD-R.. ^Vanessa
A:AnswerHi Van
I bought this to use on my new HP laptop with windows 11 and so far I have not had issues. I have only used it a few times tho and only to load software.
A:AnswerI purchased the same Turbo Tax and I had just purchased a laptop with no disk drive. You need an external DVD Writer for your computer, this will play DVD'S and CD'S, and hook into your computer thru a USB port. I purchased the LG, Ultra Slim Portable DVD WRITER, at Best Buy, it works great and costs around $25 or so and is a great investment. I have used Turbo Tax for years its great and will populate some of your general info automatically once you have initially used it year after year. Hope this helps!
A:AnswerDrive SP80NB80 is not plug and play. It comes with an install disc for Windows. The drive is compatible with Windows 11. Required system requirements are a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or higher CPU with a hard disc of 20GB or more free space and video memory of 64 MB. ^Daphane
A:AnswerAccording to the box, system requirements: Operating System: Windows 10/8.1/8/7 (I can confirm that it also works on WIndows 11) and Mac OS X (10.7.5). CPU: Pentium IV (2.4 GHz) RAM: 1-GB. Interface: USB 2.0 (3.0 compatible)
