Using a laptop CD Drive on a desktop

[Dr Nick]

Hi Everybody,
As the topic suggests, i am wondering weather there is some way to use a laptop CD Drive in a desktop. is there somkind of converter to hook the slimline CD drive up to an IDE cable? I've seen things for harddrives but not CD Drives.
Thanks

 

[FghtinIrshNvrDi]

As cheap as CD drives are these days, I'd go mow a lawn and buy a new drive.

Ryan

 

[uzi9mm]

there are some laptop IDE adapters they make for laptop hard drives...

But i am pretty sure that most laptop optical drives are a proprietary bus interface.