ImportPro USB-Powered Super Slim External 24x CD-ROM Drive for the HP Mini He...

by Import

Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B002LGNBIY
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #8 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > External Components > Optical Drives > CD Drives
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 13, 2009

Product Description

Super Slim Black Bezel and Housing 24x Transfer Rate, Eject button with Busy LED

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars No DVD Capability, February 15, 2010

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Frank Wood (Evanston, Il USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ImportPro USB-Powered Super Slim External 24x CD-ROM Drive for the HP Mini He... (Electronics)

Despite the documentation that comes with the device, it is not capable of reading DVD's - only cd's. If that's all you want, it's cheap enough. But given that most software comes on DVDs, I can't imagine much use for a cd only device.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Does Not Work - Very Disappointed, October 16, 2010

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Beck (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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I ordered this drive to use with a little HP notebook on a trip. It arrived promptly as expected, but it did not work at all. I have now tried it with both my netbook/notebook and my HP laptop, and neither PC recognizes it. The user manual is not very helpful and is so poorly translated to English that it is laughable. I will not ask the company to send me a replacement drive as another reviewer did, because the timing was critical to me and I can't wait for a replacement. Very disappointing, but maybe they sent me the one the other reviewer returned.

By the way, the symptoms were as follows: plugged in the USB cable and the power light came on the unit and the disk drive began to spin very noisily. The noise would have been bad even if it worked. But after spinning only a few seconds the light went out and nothing else happened even with the little USB 2.0 Driver mini disk in it, and neither of my pc's were ever able to find the drive at all.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ImportPro CD-ROM Drive, December 10, 2010

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Richard J. Browne (Roswell, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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Instruction manual was TOTALLY useless. When information was found on the screen regarding the product it was in Chinese characters. It barely works and is a piece of crap. I'm surprised that Amazon would sell this product.