Optical Media

Hello. So I would like to buy a laptop on Amazon soon but I have some questions. 1. If laptop description says - Operating System: Windows 10 - does it mean it has windows 10 already installed on it? Or should I install it myself? Also if I should install it, how can I do that? Because: 2. This...

I am planning to build an Home Theatre PC for playing the Bluray Movies stored on my computer with the DTS and Dolby Audio. Since my motherboard doesn't have the SPDIF output I am planing to buy a dedicated sound card with Optical/SPDIF out port to passthrough all my Dolby and DTS audio to the...

Hello, I have never been to this forum, so I apologize if this question has been addressed, or is simply not possible. I just bought and setup the Logitech z906 5.1 surround sound system, which is great. However, I would like to be able to simultaneously play sounds from my PC and my Xbox One...

I want to install a program from a CD to my PC, but my pc doesn't have an optical drive so i installed it on my laptop. I have the setup.exe file copied on my laptop. Can I in any way transfer the full program onto my PC? Thanks in advance for the help.

Is optical drive a must have feature these days? I am under the believe that in critical situation a laptop can be booted up from USB or external optical drive. The laptop is not for gaming but for a engineering student. First Choice is - HP ENVY 15-U493cl x360 Windows 10 Home 64...

As above, I have an Acer E 15 ES1-511-C35L and it has a disc tray on the right hand side, no button, is not in devices and printers, and no optical drive on the computer. How do I open it and use it?

Hey guys so im gonna be building a pc soon and i wanted a optical drive that can both read and write and play( as in watch) Blue-ray, DVD, CD Thank you guys for reading this and hope to you all have a great day/night!

hello i have an old iMac 2012, the thick one with the optical drive and NOT the new slim one. i want to upgrade to a new ssd or hdd but i came across a bunch of readings that if you change it, the fan noise will max out or turn at high rpms and therefore becomes noisy. i was wondering what i...

Hello, I am trying to change my RAM and apparently need to remove some screws above the optical drive. Any ideas? Are they actually some kind of clip? There is also a youtube video here. Around 2:08 shows points to the screws location, but I can't understand what it says unfortunately...

I want to install a second HDD in my laptop. It has 1 HDD and 1 Optical Drive installed. I have opened it up and it uses the 'laptop SATA' connectors to connect both the HDD and Optical Drive to the motherboard. Can I replace the optical drive with a secondary HDD safely? And if so, how do I go...

My laptop seems to not have an eject button on it's optical drive and there is no option to eject in "My Computer"

I have a laptop, Acer E5-572G-58KY, and i want a put a hdd in optical drive place.I wanna buy a hd caddy and i found one with lower price but it has a strange description." for slot loading optical drive''.It's a perfect measurement for me,9,5 mm, but a i have tray loading optical drive.It fits...

Hello I recently purchased a E5-573G-56RG latop and i love it however it doesnt come with an optical drive and i would like to add one. Im not sure what would fit or not fit though and i dont know if i need one with the right front bezel or not. Any help/optical drive suggestions would be...

Hi guys, ok all i want to do is take a airplane simulator that needs the CD in the drive to run the simulator and run the simulator on my PC that has no optical drive, i recall doing this via ISO to usb or something in that way ?

Hey guys, new here. I got a Lenovo Idepad 100-15 IBD two weeks ago and this Sunday, I noticed this low, inconstant grinding sound overlapped with another one, like CD being read in short bursts. I tried checking the optical drive and I don't think it's from that. The laptop itself works okay...

My son's 3 year old Gateway nv55s28u laptop died (hard drive failed-HDD not recognized in BIOS) The optical drive cover is broken but it otherwise worked OK. Is it worth replacing the hard drive (last back up was a long time ago so recent data is lost I suspect) or buying a new one. He uses it...

I have a legacy digital library that is programmed to read the data from a CD inserted in the optical drive. Needless to say, this is a really slow way to search and display data. It's no way to work. How can I fix this problem? I tried converting it into an ISO and mounting it, but I always...

So I decided to replace my optical drive with an SSD. I've bought the adapter, Samsung 850 EVO I'm ready to go. But now I can't open my laptop. I've removed all the screws, and as I saw in instructional videos, I tried to remove my keyboard. But it's fixed onto case and I can't pry it open. Now...

Windows 10. Lenovo Thinkpad R500. MATSHITA DVD/CDRW UJDA782 optical drive. Drive will read DVD's but not write to or burn them. Drive will not recognize two types of blank DVD's. Lenovo diagnostics says drive "is busy." Device Manager says "device is not migrated." Uninstalling and...

Hello, my apologies if this is in the wrong section, I've never needed anything out of the hardware section. I recently installed Rainmeter on my PC so that I can keep track of my system without several programs. I have an SSD for my OS and a 2TB HDD for storage, and an optical drive. The...