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If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

I haven't purchased an optical disc drive (ODD) for my PC since...actually, I don't even recall the last time I bought one. It's even been a minute since I owned a PC with a 5.25-inch drive bay to ...

A recovery drive stores a copy of your Windows 10 or Windows 11 environment on an external source, like a DVD or USB drive. Here's how to create one before your PC fails. Uh, oh. Your Windows 10 or ...

Disk errors are one of the most common errors on Windows 11/10. It is also scary because all our data are on the disk drives, and even with backup in place, its time consuming to restore all of them.

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Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announced one of the industry’s first Blu-ray Disc computer drives, expected to revolutionize digital and high-definition media storage. The new Pioneer BDR-101A ...