Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether ...

Good morning all. For the life of me, I can't make a bootable DVD for Win 10. Please treat this thread as something you would explain to a newbie. Make like I have no idea, from the Media Creation to, ...

I haven't posted any technical help questions on Ars for ages, but here goes. This is probably 'old tech' for most of you. I have an enormous CD collection and I've been ripping some (more) to MP3 ...

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 ...

An Apple SuperDrive comes in handy if you are looking for an external optical disc that can be used on a Windows PC. In this post, we will look at how to use Apple SuperDrive on Windows 11 and Windows ...