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 ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming ...

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 ...

Apple has released Disc Burner 1.0.1. With this update, you can now use it to burn CDs on several brands of third-party CD-RW drives, eliminating the need for Tyler Rosewood's previously reported hack ...

I've got a few hybrid sacd/cd discs... and how do I rip the cd layer on a dvd-drive? because, I have a dvd-rom drive and a dvd-writer.. and everytime I put the hybrid disc inside, it'll ignore the cd ...

This is actually pretty simple, although the alphabet stew can be confusing to the uninitiated. So, assuming you’re even more of a novice than you probably are, here are the basics: CD vs DVD: CD is ...

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 ...

In theory, they absolutely are long-lived. A factory-pressed CD (not a writable disc) should last longer than the average ...

It's a great time to play old video games on modern TVs. Fan-favorite companies are taking emulation seriously with products like the NES Classic and the Sega Genesis Mini, while enthusiasts are ...