You can purchase a second DVD drive for your personal computer or the computers in a small business office for less than $20 as of May 2012. The process is easy ...

DVD drives might be a vanishing species, but they are not yet completely extinct. New desktop PCs often include a DVD drive, as do older PCs that have been upgraded to Windows 10. And external USB DVD ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

Virtual Drive software is one of the best alternatives to DVDs and other physical storage drives we’ve been using. As the name suggests, it’s a virtual drive wherein you can mount data, store it, ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

It sometimes happens that, in an extreme situation, it is necessary to reinstall the system. We have, indeed, explained in a recent tutorial that this is not difficult or time-consuming, and that it ...

At times, when your Windows installation is giving you major problems, you may need to restore your PC using system restore or use the Refresh or Reset PC option. At times, you may even need a ...

Recently I’ve heard from a number of users who are looking for a way to cut that pricey cable-TV cord, but don’t want to give up on watching and recording their favorite network shows. Turns out there ...

If you’ve ever had to reinstall OS X, chances are you’ve used the Apple-provided system installer disc that came with the Mac. But what do you do if you misplace the DVD, or it becomes unreadable, or ...

Virtual CDs and DVDs, also called disc images, are single files containing data stored within a CD or DVD file system. You can use them for archiving purposes in your business. You can also burn ...

Reader Karen Evans has been thwarted in an attempt to install software on her Mac. She writes: Over the holidays I passed along an old Mac mini to my son. When setting it up I inserted a CD to install ...