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

Many entrepreneurs watch news broadcasts or other programming related to their field that helps them make better decisions or employ better methods. As a manager or owner, though, it's often hard to ...

Physical media, including vinyls, cassettes, and CDs are all the rage right now. If you're looking to dust off your collection of DVDs and put them to use in your Windows PC, getting them playing is ...

Whenever you connect a USB drive, external drive, or DVD to your computer, you have to open This PC or Computer folder, find the drive icon, and click on it. If you close the Explorer window and feel ...

Experimentalists at UNEASYsilence have outlined how you can turn the Xbox 360 HD DVD drive into a Windows-compatible HD DVD drive -- all you need are the proper drivers. If that wasn't enough, they ...

Another option might be to connect to a PC that shares its optical drive on the network. But the USB copy deal might be more convenient.

This is a “why didn’t I think of that?” idea. [Alec] needed a way to connect an IDE DVD drive using USB. Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive ...

More and more lightweight laptops and netbooks are shipping sans optical drives. Don't buy an external drive for for $50+ for those few times you need it, turn an old USB HDD enclosure and DVD drive ...

Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) ships, by default, on a DVD. This poses a problem for Macs shipped without a DVD drive, those with non-functional DVD drives, or those which have had their drives manually ...

Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when the company feels they have outlived their usefulness. The original iMac came without a floppy drive. The iPhone 7 came without a headphone jack.