Read now I remembered custom building each PC for a special ... one terabyte drive gave you bragging rights, each NAS had an array of ten. One of the towers was built to rip our CD collection.

If you attempt to install an application from a CD, and the computer does not recognize the disc, the media could just be defective. If you're sure the disc is okay, replacing the optical drive in ...

The ports, your CD drive, and even your fancy Zip drive ... Gateway put cow print patterns on their boxes, and every computer was a desktop. Towers existed, yes, but every tower of this vintage ...

This begs the question: If your PC lacks an optical drive, how can you install software that’s stored on a CD or DVD? You have two options. First, you can buy or borrow an external drive.