Yes. As a mater of face a CD is a storage device.
The laser in the drive is the device that actually reads or writes data from and to the CD/CDRW/CDR.
it can be used to write rewritable cd's
Nothing. It will not be recognized.
Yes. You will need an external drive case for this. Basically its a small metal box (but make sure to get a 5.25" version for your drive) with an IDE interface for the drive and a USB interface for your laptop. Thereby converting your internal IDE CDRW into an external USB CDRW. They can also be used for hard disks.
types of optical disc drive are: cd,dvd,blueray,cdr,cdrw,dvdrw,mp3,mp4
If you mean you to use a virtual drive like a CD drive, then you have to use special utility (Alcohol 52%, Alcohol 100%, Power Iso, Ultra Iso, Nero and so on).
A CDROM drive is neither an input device or an output device. A CDROM drive is a storage device.
DVD-Rom can play DVDs, a burner can play and copy DVDs. That's right, but what's more, a burner can be a DVD burner or a burning software which is able to convert and burn videos and movies to DVDs so you could play it on your DVD player.
Yes, a hard drive is a storage device.
yes, pen-drive is a peripheral device.
No a disk drive is neither input or output device, it is an optical disk drive (for CD/DVD's) and a disk drive (for hard drives) would be a storage device.
It is a CD, DVD, Blue Ray, CDR, CDi, CDRW, DVDRW, MP3, MP4, or any of a dozen other varieties of laser data readers.