Many of the purported virus warnings, chain letters, and assorted hoaxes that fill our e-mail boxes are repetitive enough, or naive enough, that most of us have learned to recognize and delete them on sight. It does not take much time and you can reassure your friends and give them factual information. As you look at this site, you will find the hoaxes classified by categories, as well as many useful links. External versus internal CD I have tried to research CD-RW drives and even talked to the local stores. The two-connector IDE cable is often in place in many computers.
Instructions are usually very good.
If you already have a standard CD, I would recommend that you connect the new one to the same cable, and set its jumper to slave. I am not as fond of drives which connect to the printer parallel connector. All kits that I have seen come with The Adaptec EZ CD software which is fully menu driven. There are a few things that you will have to learn in the process. Hidden folders I was shown at work how it is possible to hide folders and files.