You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

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.

You need a boot disk. Find another Win95 machine. Make a startup disk. You then have to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on that disk to 1. identify the cd player driver in config.sys (a ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

At one time, Floppy drives, CDs, and DVDs used to be a primary source of external storage for many before USB storage devices took over. Nowadays, many devices do not even come with a built-in CD, DVD ...

Remeber that Mythbusters episode where they tested if CDs could shatter in drives? Well, I don't remember their exact conclusion, but I can now say from personal experience - myth 100% ...

The last Apple Mac to ship with an optical CD or DVD drive was a 13in MacBook Pro, originally released in June 2012, but on sale until October 2016, when Apple discontinued that model, more ...

Backing up a printer's driver can help you troubleshoot your business's printer if anything goes wrong. Furthermore, copying the file to disc provides a method of reconfiguring any compliant printer ...