I ran a panasonic  4x8 cd-r on my p-133 system with 2.5 gig hard drives and 64
mb of RAM, and win95 & 98SE.  It was scsi, so it used less cpu than an IDE
drive; my brother in law ran a 4x8x2 cd-rw for a year on a p90, 48 MB of ram,
win95

With WinME, you need more RAM, just for overhead, I'd look into more RAM before
trying again, but, there's no real reason you can't use a cd-rw drive on that
type of system.

Glen Sagers

Sarah Cloud wrote:

> I really, REALLY want a CD-RW drive but when I took my computer to have one
> installed, the shop told me that my system was too small and it kept
> crashing whenever they tried to use it, so they had to take the drive out.
> Is there anyway to get around that? And would I be able to use any type of
> external CD-RW drives? I have a Packard Bell, Windows ME (upgraded from
> Windows 98), 48x speed CD-ROM drive, 6.4 GB hard drive and a MII -333 MMX
> Enhanced Processor. Would I be able to use one?
>

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