You could try using the following method to fix the issue:
Step 1: Connect your USB flash drive to your PC and then press Win key + E to open File Explorer.
Step 2: Right-click the drive and select the Format option.
Step 3: Expand the File system drop-down menu and then select the exFAToption.
Step 4: Click the Start button.
If files on the faulty USB drive are important and you want to recover them, you could use Bitwar Data Recovery to do so:
Step 1: Download Bitwar Data Recovery tool from the official website.
Step 2: After downloading, launch the recovery tool and choose the USB that thinks it's a CD drive, followed by pressing Next.
Step 3: Now, select the scan mode. You can choose the Quick Scan mode, which is capable of recovering the most lost files. If this scan mode doesn't work, you could come back to this stage and then select Deep Scan. After selecting the scan mode, click on the Next button to proceed.
Step 4: Now, select the file types for the recovery and hit on the Next button.
Step 5: Lastly, preview all the selected data and click on Recover to begin data recovery.
You can use a USB DVD Drive.
Buy the CD and copy it onto a USB drive
Well, you could just buy a USB CD drive and then plug it in to your mini-notebook. However, there are other ways of doing what you want. If you have a computer that does have a CD drive and a USB port, what you want to do is very easy. Put the CD into the computer's CD drive. Copy and paste the files into Your Documents (or wherever else you store things on your computer. Just make sure you know where you saved the file). After you have copied and pasted all of the data onto your computer's hard drive, insert the USB drive/memory stick and copy and paste all of the data that you got from the CD onto the USB drive. With the files on the USB drive, you should then be able to plug the USB drive out of your computer and into your mini notebook.
A flash drive is not a cd and therefore cannot be read like one.
Not if it's a internal CD or DVD drive. If it is a external CD or DVD drive they usually connected via USB port or Fire-wire.
To create a bootable USB drive using the "CD F" command, you can use a tool like Rufus or Win32 Disk Imager. These tools allow you to select the ISO file of the operating system you want to install on the USB drive and then write it to the drive using the "CD F" command. This process will make the USB drive bootable and ready for installation.
u get 1 off a usb flash drive or mp3 player/iPod, the other you rip off a CD (copy from CD)
Yes, they tend to be pricier.
To create an image file from a CD to a USB drive, first insert the CD into your computer. Use disk imaging software like ImgBurn, WinISO, or Disk Utility (on macOS) to create an ISO file from the CD. Once the ISO file is created, plug in your USB drive and use the same software or a tool like Rufus to write the ISO file to the USB, effectively transferring the image of the CD to the USB drive. Make sure to back up any important data on the USB, as this process may erase its contents.
The data cable used by the normal IDE CD-ROM drive is called the USB cable. USB stands for universal serial bus.
ANYONE with a computer could do it. Simply insert the CD into the drive and the USB stick into a vacant socket. Using Windows - just 'drag & drop' the images from the CD to the USB stick.
put it on to a usb drive then download it onto your PC