LG Electronics GP08LU10 8X Slim LightScribe DVD+/-RW External Drive (Black)

I had problems getting computerto recognize it as lightscribe device. LightScribe was the reason I bought it. I bought an usb/ac adapter(about $2). For power it uses an usb to usb cord. My usb wasn't providing enough power. Once I hooked up the usb/ac adapter my computer recognized it and I have been burning with it.I knocked off 1 star for the headaches of getting it to work. I knocked off another star for slow burn speeds on both media and the images.

There is a 1 star review saying this does not work with Windows 8. I just received this drive a couple days ago and was able to install the device, install the software, burn a couple dvd's and light-scribe a few discs. Only issue I had was I didn't plug in the micro usb connector into the back of the drive tight enough. Its a pretty snug connection. But after that it has been working just fine. Runs like most typical dvd drive where you get that "whine" sound from a high speed fan. Seems solid. My asus drive I just bought is being sent back mainly because I need two light-scribe dvd drives, which that one doesn't do, and also because they're almost identical in price. So for a couple extra bucks I'm getting light-scribe and a drive that runs just as good as the asus. Also when reading a couple dvd's the lg seems a bit faster than the asus. Could just be the dvd's that I was reading at the time but ti's worth noting. Only downside is the lg is a little bit louder but nothing above average. And also it does come with the dual usb connector along with a dedicated single power usb connector. So you can power it from two usb ports. Or you can plug in one of the usb ports from the dual usb cord into your computer, for the data, and then use the single usb power only cord and plug it into a wall outlet usb adapter so you have an extra usb port on your computer. Works for me since I have 3 usb port on my laptop and can use two of these at the same time. If you're confused leave a comment and I will try to explain better.

The drive comes with no software for using the LightScribe feature -- you have to go on-line to other sources to find it. Not only that, it took three tries for the drive's setup program to "take" -- the first two times, the CD just spun inside the drive for several minutes on end, with no screen display indicating what was going on. And there were zero instructions included for finding and installing required software.Once I found and downloaded the proper sets of software (driver and labeling editor... thank you, Google search), the drive seemed to do its Light Scribe tasks properly. As others have mentioned though, you have to pretty much run everything through twice in order to get enough contrast on the disk label.

Great to have, you can play all those old DVD's on your new devices.

Great compact add-on for any of today's laptops that don't have CD ROM drives. Device is comparable with windows 7 and 8 but app that comes with it does not. I use roxio to burn CDs and litescribe to burn images onto disks so it didn't matter to me.

Just returned from 3 weeks vacation, and picking up from where i left off...Unable to burn and scribe labels, still attemping to download and burn CD/DVD, and same problems in attempts to complete...Now i'm getting fustrated, but have not giving up...YET !

So far I'm loving this little drive! I got it very quickly and way before the estimated delivery date. It came with everything it was supposed to, including the software. It plugged right in to my computer and showed up in "My Computer" even without the software. It does use lightscribe but you can go to download.com and search for lightscribe software and download the latest versions of lightscribe. l've burned one CD with this so far and used the lightscribe function and I had no errors or problems. It worked like a charm! You do need to have available, two usb ports...one for the power and one to hook up to your computer which is kind of strange but since I have a large hub, I had plenty of ports available. I am using Windows 7 64-bit system and so far so good!

I purchased this because of the lightscribe feature. I already have a portable DVD recorder.No matter which lightscribe program I use, the unit will not write. The program says it is, but the diskis blank after 'scribing'. If a special lightscribe disk is supposed to be used, I don't know what it is---AND one shouldn't look all over for a lightscribe disk that will work