Being an early adopter is great if you enjoy showing off new gadgets to your friends. But any new technology also brings the risk of ending up at the wrong side of a format war: just ask anyone who ...

I have the Windows 95 CD in the CD-ROM drive. I have the drive hooked up like the instruction manual states, and it gives me "invalid drive specification" whenever I try to access the CD-ROm drive in ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...