Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

We continue to get email on< various problems burning CDs with Que! CD-RW drives (see yesterday's item). FireWire Two readers (Paul Conway and Paul Mirkovich) point to problems with Que! 8x4x32 ...

Back when blank CDs cost a whopping $5 each and 4X CD-R drives were the top of the line, it was hard to imagine the compact disc ever taking the place of the floppy disc. But now that blank CDs cost ...

The first CD-RW drive I ever bought was an 8X4X32X unit for around $200 beans and I thought it was amazing how fast that thing could burn CD's. It took me only about 10 minutes to burn a full disc of ...

It’s impossible to beat CD-R media in terms of cost or compatibility for backing up important files; freeing up hard drive space; and burning all your favorite tunes to a perfect mixed CD for a friend ...

While CD-RW drive sales are soaring and DVD-ROM drives continue to struggle for widespread consumer acceptance, drive manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the CD-RW/DVD-ROM combination drive to ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

Q: My Windows XP computer came with a CD-RW drive but not a floppy- disk drive. Is there a way to save files on a CD that's as easy as saving to a floppy? Do I need special software? A: Saving data ...

Although it is No. 1 in sales of add-on CD-rewritable drives, Hewlett-Packard is exiting that market so it can better concentrate on the emerging, and potentially more profitable, demand for ...

For some reason, I can't get my DC-RW drive to write to any CD-RW media. It can write to CD-R media fine though...which is why I am confused. The burn process goes all the way through, the burn light ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...