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A CD has microscopic pits and ridges that a CD drive can read. In order to read these pits, the drive has a laser that fires at the bottom of the CD and detects those pits and ridges. It then sends that raw data to the computers proccesser or motherboard, which decodes the data into a form the computer can use.
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What is a CD-ROM card?
In the early take up period of computer cdrom drives, Pc's required an interface to drive the unit itself. Later on, the drives were created able to utilise the IDE interface.
Name three ways a CD drive can interface with a motherboard?
A CD drive can interface with a mother board using an EIDE, SATA or SCSI interface.
How do you transfer data from a PC to a notebook that has no CD drive?
put it on to a usb drive then download it onto your PC
Which PC drive interface is a parallel system bus?
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) is a parrallel system bus.
How do you erase hard drive without CD on asus eee PC?
you can't without the cd
Is there a CD drive in the Windows 7 Asus?
Asus deliver Windows based PC's both with and without CD/DVD-Drive.
If a CD drive and a hard drive are sharing the same data cable in a computer system what type of connection is the CD drive using?
It is using the EIDE connection. The book says that if you have a hard drive and a CD that the hard drive should be the master and the CD will be the slave.
Can you use CDs on the Eee PC?
Not by default. You need to plug an external USB CD-ROM drive in if you want to play CDs.
Which built in component is used for a permanent cd-rom or dvd drive in a notebook pc?
Most notebook PCs have a permanently built in CD-ROM or DVD drive. If your PC lacks this component it is possible to use certain software to emulate having a drive.
Which built-in component is used for a permanent CD-rom or DVD drive in a notebook PC?
Most notebook PCs have a permanently built in CD-ROM or DVD drive. If your PC lacks this component it is possible to use certain software to emulate having a drive.
Is there any difference between a laptop CD-DVD drive and a PC CD-DVD drive in the way that they read the data from a CD?
In my experience, the laptops have slower drives in terms of read speed.
How do you format the PC?
To format the PC, insert the windows installation CD, then follow the instructions to format the selected hard drive.
