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If you see The directory name is invalid message, for USB/CD/DVD drive, you can try our recommended solutions and see if that helps to resolve the issue. This solution entails that you try ...

This is a “why didn’t I think of that?” idea. [Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard ...