A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead… ...

Windows 8 has the ability to create a bootable USB flash recovery drive that can be used to troubleshoot a Windows 8 computer that is unable to start. A recovery drive is the same as a startup ...

Most modern laptops lack an optical drive, yet CDs and DVDs are still used in many households, whether for playing old movies ...

This should force the system to bypass the normal startup volume and look for another valid boot drive -- namely your Mac OS X startup CD or DVD.

But the usefulness doesn't stop there. Help2Go has a tutorial up detailing how you can partition your Windows hard drive any time using a Linux live CD.

Andreas Fürich, the operator of PILABOR, said that he found a ``list of optical drives with high CD ripping accuracy'' on the forum of dBpoweramp , a CD ripping software, and added some information.

business | Technology What exactly is 'ripping' a CD? The term "ripping CDs" means copying the individual song files from the CD to your computer so you can play them back on your Mac or Windows ...

Windows doesn’t recognize DVD or can't find DVD/CD drive? If your CD/DVD drive is not detected, showing, reading, working, or will not read/write media on Windows PC, then see this.

How does a slot-loading CD drive work? I'm specifically referring to the part where the drive grabs the CD and sucks in in. Google is totally failing me ...

At the end of this tutorial, you'll split your C: drive into 2 partitions, and the second one will contain a disk image of the first.