Optical drives are disappearing slowly from the computers as everything is possible with USB drives and software, whether it is operating systems or computer games, is now downloaded mainly from the internet as opposed to buying them on DVD drives. But they are still available for the backward compatibility or for accessing your older backups. Read More …
Storage media technology is changing really very fast. Only a few years ago, DVD movies were very popular and now their place has been taken up by Blu-ray media and online streaming like NetFlix. But even the Blu-ray disks need a big bulky Blu-ray player which is useless when you are outside your home or Read More …
Optical media like CD or DVD is still in use, but not many people use them. They have been largely replaced by portable hard drives, memory cards and USB pen-drives. But individuals and organizations still have the CDs and DVDs they used many years ago containing the backups of important files. Some people used to Read More …
The first thing that people do after wedding ceremony is over is share the pictures that they snapped with close relatives and then the demand comes to share the wedding ceremony DVDs. People always want to keep a copy of the DVD video for themselves and it is very easy these days. But not everyone Read More …
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 …