Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

I am using a CD Rom (as master) and a CD-R (as slave) in my system and I keep burning out the CD drives. After about a year, they stop reading CD's. I've used several different brands and they all do ...

So I've got this CD-R Drive, it broke. <P>I just pulled it back out hoping a firmware upgrade would fix it, but that didn't work.<P>It is detected correctly by the BIOS and in Windows (XP), it'll ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

NEW YORK — Sony will take the floppy diskette-based Mavica digital camera to the next technological level this summer when it ships a camera that uses a CD-R drive to store images. The Mavica ...

For about as long as there have been CD-ROMs, there have been CD-ROM recorders you could buy and attach to your computer, if you were independently wealthy and had nothing better to do than invest in ...