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 However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

If you grew up with Windows XP or Windows 7, you probably remember how straightforward DVDs once were. Autorun and autoplay ...

So, I don't have a TV and watch movies on my PC. I realize I'm sitting like 24" from the screen (and wearing reading glasses), and it looks pretty good to me.<BR><BR>I'm just a little confused about ...

Dan over on UNEASYsilence has come up with a interesting way to get a cheap HD-DVD drive for a PC - by using the HD-DVD drive designed for an Xbox 360! So, how hard is it to hack the HD-DVD drive to ...

Hello,<BR><BR>So i have a creative pc-dvd Dxr2 drive and decoder card(PCI). i got it bran new with my pc a long time ago when windows 98 was the latest version of windows and it worked ...

There are several steps that you can take to edit the registry for a DVD drive on your computer if Windows does not recognize it. In some cases, problems may occur if you tried to upgrade your ...

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, which pushed the first hard drive to C:. Floppy disks were dominant back ...

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 ...

If you’ve poked around PC World in recent weeks, you’ve learned how to download and install Windows 8 on a new hard-drive partition and how to install Windows 8 in a virtual machine. Today, let’s talk ...

Essentially, a Recovery Drive stores a copy of your Windows 11/10 environment without your personal files and desktop applications on another source, such as a DVD or USB drive. So in the event your ...