Instead of fixing the CD drive it would be cheaper to buy a new drive because most companies that repair drives sell them for half the price than they charge to repair them.
Read/ write drives allow you to write DVDs. ROMs only read.
That is a DVD burner. Most read and write to CDs as well as DVDs. Hybrid drives that read/burn CDs but only read DVDs also exist.
The DVD Drive is a drive that is used for reading CDs or DVDs.
Typically a drive marked as being a 'CD' or a 'CD RW' drive, will not be able to read a DVD. You will need one marked as being at least a 'DVD' drive, which will be able to read DVDs and CDs too.
Your drive is probably a CD-R(W)/DVD-ROM drive. These are not capable of writing DVDs, but only reading them.
A drive that is capable of writing to DVDs will almost always be capable of writing to CDs as well. A drive that can read DVDs is not necessarily capable of writing to a CD.
The DVD Drive is a drive that is used for reading CDs or DVDs.
No, due to technical differences, only a HD DVD drive can play HD DVDs.
You cannot burn DVDs in this drive, but you can read and burn CDs and watch DVDs. Therefore, you can only use DVD R and CD R/RW.
Computers do read DVD-Rs but if your computer doesn't read DVD-Rs you may not have a DVD Drive. To make sure you have one, Look on the drive. If it says Compact Disk, that means CDs only. If it says Compact Disk and DVD R/RW you cab view and burn DVDs
Most DVD drives can read both CD-R and DVDs. However, CD-ROM drives, which were designed before DVDs became standard, cannot read DVDs.
Dual-layer DVDs are the optimal type of DVD to use on a multi-drive DVD. Dual-layer DVDs are preferred due to the amount of storage capacity they contain.