Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

These days, a movie night usually involves cuddling up on the couch, turning on Netflix, and picking another rom-com movie ...

The RoadStor is a well-connected CD-writer/DVD-player (CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive) with a card reader. At 1.4x5.4x6.875-inches and 26 oz. (both with battery), it imposes no more of a burden on a traveler ...

For many years now a source for some of the smallest and cheapest home made CNC mechanisms has been the seemingly never-ending supply of surplus CD and DVD-ROM drives. The linear actuator that ...

A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original installation of the OS and applications for a particular computer. When booted, a recovery program (recovery console) returns the computer ...

The CD was the first kind of optical disc ... play movies in standard definition format (720x480 pixels), and early DVD-ROM discs could store 4.7GB. So-called dual-layer DVDs could store 8.5GB ...

What you want to do here is move the CD-Rom/DVD Drive to the top of the list. Do this by selecting the down-arrow key until the CD-Rom option is highlighted, and the press the “+” key on your ...

just ask anyone who committed to HD-DVD fifteen years ago. If, on the other hand, you were among the few who invested in CD-ROM when it was first released in the mid-1980s, you definitely made the ...

This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated ...

Any of the popular DVD rewriting methods will be able to read your CD-ROM discs as well. Display. To put it bluntly, monitors are dead. Long live liquid crystal displays (LCDs). These thin-line ...