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It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
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What is Storage media used by optical disc drives?
CD and DVD disks are used by optical disc drives.
How many drives must be set to master in a PC with 2 IDE drives on same cable?
if it is DVD or CDROM both,otherewise only one
What are CD and DVD burners?
CD & DVD burners are optical drives that can write data to CDs or DVDs.
What are some examples of an optical storage?
CD's, DVD's, hard drives,etc.
How can you play your DVD tape on your PC?
play DVD on CDROM
What if No optical drive detected on your laptop?
Most likely you will have to reinstall the drives for the CD and DVD units
Are CD drives or DVD drives more common?
CD drivers and DVD drivers are both equally common. CD drives is a drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system. A DVD drive is an optical disc storage media format.
Does cdrom mean DVD and CD?
Yepp.
If you have a cdrom you can use both cdrom and dvdrom?
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
What is an internal DVD drive?
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.
How do you reformat your XP hard drive when your CDRom has a virus and won't work?
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
What is the purpose of the optical drive?
An optical drive is for reading and possibly writing to optical media such as a CD or DVD. It is pretty much used like any other drive in a computer. Older optical drives could only read data and could not burn disks.
