No. A cd-rom drive cannot play DVD's. A DVD drive can play CDs and DVD's. A cd-rom drive isn't made for DVD's. It's made only for CD's, and it can't write any. It can only read.
A CD, DVD or Blu-ray drive (optical drive) that is installed in the computer.The alternative is an external drive, which is a separate box you connect to the computer using a USB cable.
play DVD on CDROM
Yepp.
Nope... the data on a DVD-ROM is packed much tighter. A CD-ROM cannot read DVD's but a DVD-ROM can read CD's
It goes (Most room) Tape, DVD, CDROM, Floppy.
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A CDROM drive is neither an input device or an output device. A CDROM drive is a storage device.
CDROM drives do not get infected with virus. May be there is a driver problem. You can first run one of the free anti-virus like AVG and enable your CD ROM drive if you want to reinstall OS from a CD/DVD. - Neeraj Sharma
I/O error means 'input / output error' and is generally triggered when you have a drive trying to read some unreadable media, such as a scratched up cdrom or DVD.
I/O error means 'input / output error' and is generally triggered when you have a drive trying to read some unreadable media, such as a scratched up cdrom or DVD.
Each IDE connector on the board supports two channels per. (Two drives) The combination of drives can vary. For instance, hard drive-cdrom, hard drive-hard drive, cdrom-cdrom, ect....ect.
DVD discs have much more capacity - 4.7 Gigabytes compared to a CD's 700 Megabytes. This means that each DVD can hold almost 7 CDs worth of stuff.