From there, your computer will boot into the CD or USB drive instead of OS X, and you can do whatever it is you need to do by following the on-screen instructions.

A mail-order house called Tenex (800-776-6781) has an internal CD-ROM player (it fits in a disk drive bay inside your computer) for $199 and an external model that looks exactly like the DAK for $289.

Windows doesn’t recognize DVD or can't find DVD/CD drive? If your CD/DVD drive is not detected, showing, reading, working, or will not read/write media on Windows PC, then see this.

QUESTION: My computer does not recognize my CD drive. It stopped doing this so I thought the CD player was just shot. I put in a new one and got the same result. I switched IDE cables, same result.

Insert the CD into the computer's CD drive. Restart your computer. Watch the top of the screen for a message that says "F2 = Setup, F12 = Boot Menu." Press "F12" when you see this message.

You can connect an external optical drive to your computer via USB. External drives are so inexpensive — you can routinely find CD/DVD drives online for $25 or less — that it might make sense ...

Insert a writable CD into your CD/DVD drive and click "Create disc." Click "Close" and "OK." Reboot your computer, and tap the appropriate key to bring up your boot menu.

You may have heard that it's not exactly safe to stick strange USB sticks into your laptop or desktop computer. This advice is oft-repeated but also oft-ignored. A 2011 test run by the Department ...

Personal computer CD drives read the last, most recent table first and work back through the series of indices – but audio CD players read only the first table.

Help, I'm stumped! I just bought a new CD and the disc is labeled "Enhanced CD". When I insert it into my computer's CD drive, it opens up the music video of the feature song on the CD but none of ...