hooking a desktop cd drive to a laptop?

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toyota_ae86

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in my old gateway esential, i installed a samsung cd rw 52x cd burner, and it is not being used becuase the computer wont boot, but it there a way i would hook it up to my dell inspiron 7500 laptop, externally? what would i need and how would i do it, if it is possible.
 
now exactly how does it hook to the laptop? usb? and what is this 5.25 thing? i am pretty new to computer tech hardware.
 
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