Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

QUESTION: Install a replacement CD-ROM drive or put a new CD Burner in my computer? I was not sure what was the wise move for me, because the other CD-ROM drive in my computer is not working right ...

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 the ...

A CD-ROM drive can be used as a stand-alone unit for playing digital audio CDs without interfacing with a computer. The stereo output of CD player available at the audio jack can be amplified using ...

Page 2: Kenwood's 72X True X CDROM Drive - Page 2 Once in a blue moon, we get a product in here at Hot Hardware that absolutely knocks our socks off. It doesn't happen very often and we test a lot of ...

A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. Modern CD-ROM drives also play audio CDs. See CD-ROM and CD-ROM drives. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission ...

Conventional CD-ROM drives spin the CD faster to read the data more quickly. By using multiple lasers, Zen Research (zenresearch.com) approaches hard-drive speeds (as high as 52X). Only Compaq offers ...

In addition to high-speed recording on CD-R and CD-RW media, the Samsung SM-352BRNS DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo Drive ($80 street) can play DVD-ROM media and movies. The drive ships with cables for ...

I have the Windows 95 CD in the CD-ROM drive. I have the drive hooked up like the instruction manual states, and it gives me "invalid drive specification" whenever I try to access the CD-ROm drive in ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...