You may be able to just boot from CD without doing anything. Put a bootable CD in the drive, restart the computer, and see. If it doesn't work for you, here's what to try next: ...

How to Start Up a Dell Computer by CD. When your Dell computer boots up, it references a list of bootable devices contained in the computer's BIOS. The computer will start at the top of the list ...

How Does a Virtual CD-ROM Emulator Work?. A virtual CD-ROM emulator works by allowing you to copy and run an image of a CD on your computer. The process serves as an alternative to placing a disc ...

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 However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

Computer Weekly looks at the tooling and cultural changes needed to make CI/CD work ...

I've had CD-ROMs behave this way - show up 'fine' in windows settings and device manager, however they simply don't want to work.