There was a time when physical media dominated everything that we did on computers. You’d find yourself rushing to a computer lab to insert a floppy disk to print your report in the late 1990s and ...

There are several steps that you can take to edit the registry for a DVD drive on your computer if Windows does not recognize it. In some cases, problems may occur if you tried to upgrade your ...

Paul Ablett reports some issues burning CDs with iTunes 5.0: "When burning a playlist, iTunes flashes 'checking media' but does not move forward. Workaround is to quit iTunes and relaunch with disc in ...

I recently bought a Core I7 920 based machine from CyberpowerPC without an optical drive because I had one at home. So, I installed the IDE HP dvd drive as master on the lone ide connection on the ...

No more temporary backups resulting in failed burns Mac OS X 10.4 no longer creates temporary backups of the data that is being burned to media. This saves time, but also results in more failed burns ...

Finished my new build about 2 weeks ago, (Vista 64, Asus P5K-VM, E2160, 4GB of RAM) and everything has been running great. Yesterday, I go to put a disk in my DVD drive (Samsung SH-S203B) and nothing ...

If your external hard drive keeps blinking, but Windows doesn’t detect or recognize it, this post will help you. Most hard drives have an activity light on them. The light flashes when there is a data ...