Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...

Sometime around 2008 and with the advent of the first MacBook Air, Apple made the declarative statement that the end was in sight for optical drives built into its notebooks. At the time, the lack of ...

One truism about computer hardware is that, once purchased, it immediately starts falling behind the leading edge of the technology curve. Consider the Dual-2.0GHz Power Mac G5 I purchased in ...

like the title says, i just have a quick Q about installing a second optical drive. i currently have the OEM combo drive in the machine, and an external LaCie 48X FW drive that i used with my G4 cube.

So I've got an iBook G4 w/ a dead optical drive. (At least, I assume it's dead. It ejects everything I put into it.)<BR><BR>I recommended to its owner that an external drive would probably be faster, ...

Use this video–Part 6 of our series, tied to the article, “DIY: How to Build a Great Media-Editing PC“–to learn how to safely install optical drives and hard disks.

Optical drives were once so common that virtually every computer came with one, or even two. Now this storage solution is quickly becoming obsolete — it's increasingly rare to find a mainstream ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn't a problem until they came ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Consumers now have the right to repair and replace optical drives from any video games console that utilizes such drives. Thanks to proponents like iFixit ...