Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...

I've been a Plextor fan forever, and I've got an old rig I use just for burning where the drive I use for extracting (an UltraPlex 40X SCSI CD-ROM) seems to have finally died.<BR><BR>(I've updated the ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies, installing older software, or even for making physical backups. An ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

Some troubleshooting tidbits we discovered while working with a LaCie FireWire CD-RW drive: Cannot boot from CD-RW FireWire drive Any bootable discs mounted by the CD-RW drive, including the original ...

The best laptops with CD and DVD drives are rapidly encroaching on extinction. Trust me. During my tenure as a laptop reviewer, I haven't seen a single laptop with one! Now that everything can be ...

How can I tell if a drive can be used to boot from? For ages I couldn't work out why my P133 machine wouldn't boot of CDs even when the option was checked in the BIOS. Then I realised it was the drive ...

After admitting that it "missed the boat" in adopting recordable CD technology for its hardware, Apple is reportedly looking at options for incorporating CD-ReWritable drives into the next crop of ...

QUESTION: I am having problems with my "e" and "f" drives on my Windows XP machine - they will not allow me to download any programs. I have heard that some others have been having the same problems.