I am using a CD Rom (as master) and a CD-R (as slave) in my system and I keep burning out the CD drives. After about a year, they stop reading CD's. I've used several different brands and they all do ...

Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create backups—especially with modern laptops, which are usually supplied without a drive.

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...

So I've got this CD-R Drive, it broke. <P>I just pulled it back out hoping a firmware upgrade would fix it, but that didn't work.<P>It is detected correctly by the BIOS and in Windows (XP), it'll ...

Write-protected CDs are designed to have files copied to them only once. Blank write-protected CDs are identified as CD-R discs. Using the default options in Windows, once you copy files to a CD-R and ...

CD burners have made it possible to combine the best of Bach and Destiny's Child on the same compact disc -- prompting grand scale consumption of CD-recorder drives by computer owners new and old. But ...

For about as long as there have been CD-ROMs, there have been CD-ROM recorders you could buy and attach to your computer, if you were independently wealthy and had nothing better to do than invest in ...