Recently I bough a number of blank DVDs (pack of 25) only to find out that I could not properly burn the data on them. When I took the remaining DVDs back to the store, the salesperson demonstrated successfully data burning on the same exact DVDs. When I asked them why it failed on my Read More …

One time CDs were very popular and were the first choice for storing large size of data. But now nobody uses them, even the software and games are being distributed online. As far as the data storage requirements are concerned, people are now choosing cloud storage services and portable hard drives for storing all their Read More …

In all the Windows computers exists a very useful feature called auto-play or auto-run that launches the auto-run script on a drive as soon as it is connected to your PC. It was used extensively in the late 90s and early 2000s by the CD/DVD publishers to launch programs, setup installers, web browsers or media Read More …

Starting from Windows 7, Microsoft Windows has in-built support for the ISO disk image format. You can mount an ISO image in Windows as a disk drive and access all the contents of the disk images as if you have burned the ISO image on a real CD/DVD and are using it through an optical Read More …

When you are diagnosing problems that are preventing you to use your PC in the usual manner, you often need a set of tools to detect and fix these problems. For example, you might need a bootable antivirus scanner disk, a disk partitioning tool, a data recovery tool, a memory diagnostic tool, a bench-marking utility Read More …

Optical disks like CDs and DVDs are not so popular these days as they once were and have been almost replaced by the memory cards and USB pendrives. But compared to the flash memory based devices (like the USB pendrives), the data stored on DVDs stays much safer and protected again physical damage. While the Read More …

Experts suggest to make a disk image of your system partition (on which Windows is installed, usually C:) when you get a new computer for a very good reason. In the event of  a mishap (accidentally making changes to Windows settings, malware attack, data corruption etc), some things might stop working in your Windows computer. Read More …

All of the Linux flavors are known to provide the installation disks in the form of downloadable ISO images. You have to download these ISO images and then burn them on to a blank CD or DVD disk. And in the recent years, Microsoft has also started to offers downloadable ISO images for Windows, Visual Read More …

Many people think that any type of blank CD/DVD media can be used on any DVD burner. But they do not know that the media type should be supported by the DVD burner before you can use it. For example, if you buy DVD+R blank disks and try to use them on a DVD writer Read More …