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Is it necessary to uninstall optical drive drivers before replacing?

Started by AdgeT , Feb 25 2010 12:23 PM

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Posted 25 February 2010 - 12:23 PM

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Just curious... I bought a new optical drive and plan to install it today, but do I need to uninstall my old drive's drivers before removing it and putting the new drive in?

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Posted 25 February 2010 - 01:01 PM

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it's not necessary but it's also not a bad idea, only takes a couple extra seconds to go into device manager and click uninstall on the old drive
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Posted 25 February 2010 - 01:53 PM

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Thank you for the quick reply, dsenette.
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