Is this even compatible with a laptop. Have Toshiba Sattelite with Windows 7. Cannot even get disc to work, much less anything else.
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You might not even need to use the disk. If your laptop has a 15 pin svga socket, which most laptops do, then you can just plug it in and it will work. There may be some features of the s/w on the disk that you can't use until its installed, but you can probably download everything that's on the disk from the internet.
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plain and simple, as long as you have an external vga port on the laptop, yes.
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I understand you to say that "cannot even get disc to work" which is a more basic problem than the monitor. If the "disc" you're referring to is your system disk on your laptop, that needs to be resolved before anything else. As long as you can get video on your laptop display, I see no reason why you shouldn't get video on this monitor. If you have another monitor available, you may want to try that on your VGA port on the back of your laptop to insure that the VGA port itself is functional. With a monitor attached to your laptop, whatever you see displayed on your laptop display should also be displayed on the attached monitor. Without further details, that's the best that I can offer. I understand you to say that "cannot even get disc to work" which is a more basic problem than the monitor. If the "disc" you're referring to is your system disk on your laptop, that needs to be resolved before anything else. As long as you can get video on your laptop display, I see no reason why you shouldn't get video on this monitor. If you have another monitor available, you may want to try that on your VGA port on the back of your laptop to insure that the VGA port itself is functional. With a monitor attached to your laptop, whatever you see displayed on your... » Read More I understand you to say that "cannot even get disc to work" which is a more basic problem than the monitor. If the "disc" you're referring to is your system disk on your laptop, that needs to be resolved before anything else. As long as you can get video on your laptop display, I see no reason why you shouldn't get video on this monitor. If you have another monitor available, you may want to try that on your VGA port on the back of your laptop to insure that the VGA port itself is functional. With a monitor attached to your laptop, whatever you see displayed on your laptop display should also be displayed on the attached monitor. Without further details, that's the best that I can offer. « Show Less
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I have a Toshiba Satellite 2435-S255 and there is a standard VGA connector on the back that you can use to hook up to this ViewSonic monitor. You should have some display capability when you plug it in. Your disc may have a scratch and be readable or it may be bad. Contact the company or try downloading the software from their web site.
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I connected it to a dell laptop and didn't have any issues. They do have a driver disc included but I didn't need it. It was just plug and play.
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Yes, it worked perfectly on a Toshiba Satellite Windows 8 laptop. It loaded easily and works just fine!
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Better off using an external DVD drive. Just plug it into USB port and be done. Also I put an USB 4way splitter on mine and it allows for my mouse, printer, external antenna for wireless signal, and DVD player/burner to work all together on 1 port. I got DVD at Best Buy great price and they have several to choose from mine is 24X.
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I had no problem using the small disc on my 1 yr old laptop but am having problems with the driver. Waiting on an answer to my question now. Running win 8.1 and the com port is not recognized. Suspect serial to usb driver issue since all usb devices except this badge works.
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I have to say if you want it for a notebook to connect to hotspots, it wil be recognized by win7 and will work. However I needed an access point mode, not only do you need the drivers for it, I only got it to work with their website's version of drivers, not the cd. Was a war let me tell you, 3 installs and reboots and nothing. Website version, worked the first time.
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I have had nothing but trouble with this. I'm using Windows 7. I don't know if I got a lemon of a drive or if it is incompatible, but people should be aware of this either way. I've been on the forums at Buffalo, too, for assistance, and no one seems able to correct the problem.
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It should work on windows 7 and i don't remember if mine has to use discs. I think you can make it so you don't have to.
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Yes, it is only compatible with laptop DVD/CD drives, because they are a smaller form factor than normal desktop DVD/CD drives. After installing a laptop drive into this case, you should be able to use this as an external DVD/CD drive on any computer with a USB port.
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the only way you could do that is to hook up an external power source, and then run an e-sata cable from the drive into an e-sata/usb input on the laptop, if it has one. not a viable solution. you need and external dvd model.
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I'm sure it is but I have found the drive to be unreliable and Toshiba's support is somewhere between zero and non existent. There are far better products out there and I'd consider them instead.
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I use mine sometimes in Win8 so it should. Double check that Windows has BluRay playing capability built-in from a software perspective. I think it does but wouldn't say I'm 100%. The drive itself will work just fine though.
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I was reading the description on Amazon for this product and it specifically says "Compatible with CD players and CD-ROM drives. Not for laptops and Blu-ray". Maybe you should try looking for one that specifically works for DVD players and see what pops up. Hope this helps.
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Try laptopcpufans.net They have several available for Toshiba Satellite.Good luck!
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I'm not sure about Toshiba. I hooked it up to a Sony Bluray player and it works fine for me (using the Ethernet cable).
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It works with Window 7 on my computer. Although I would suggest not installing the software it comes with as I had a fatal crash after installing it. The unit works fine without the accompanying software, and I currently use the drive.
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I looked up your specs, and the toshiba you have does use a sata1 drive . I have used the sata2 drives in a standard sata1 laptop setup before . It should be backwards compatable for your laptop.