Yes, it's possible, but it requires some hardware modifications. I'm at a loss right now as to where I read that, though. It may not even be worth doing, and you might want to look into putting that ...

My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...