My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

When buying a new computer or laptop, the latest operating system is often already installed. If not, and you have the original media that the OS is on, you can perform the installation yourself. For ...

A fair collection of hardware and software came with the Teac CD-W552E. Teac included the necessary cabling to connect the drive to the system and 4 screws to mount it. A generic 52X CD-R and 4X-10X ...

i have a thinkpad without a cdrom and i want to install linux on it. in windows i'd make a dos boot disk with fdisk and format on it, stick the drive in another machine make a 600mb partition and copy ...