Questions tagged [optical-drive]
An optical drive is a kind of drive that can read (and usually write) optical media like CDs, DVDs, or Blu-Ray discs.
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How can there be different tracks from optical media exposed to the PC? [duplicate]
Ok so bear with me.
An Audio CD has different 'tracks', right? Not the songs, but like an audio track, a data track etc. Only the data track contains a proper filesystem (and normal block sizes) as we ...
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MacBook Pro - how do I stop DVD player from autoplaying?
I've tried the following to disable this behaviour:
System Preferences -> CDs & DVDs -> When you insert a video DVD: set to Ignore (actually moved all of them to Ignore)
Neither of these ...
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On VirtualBox, how to to access the host CD drive from the virtual machine?
In VirtualBox (6.1) on macOS (10.12), I have Windows XP as a guest OS. I can't find how to access the physical CD drive from the guest OS. I've found on the web that in the storage settings of the ...
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When trying to record backup files to my BD-R burner, I get "media is not recognized as recordable DVD" on two different drives that worked before
My Fedora 36 based server (fully updater) has a SATA BD-R drive and a USB BD-R drive. I am trying to spool some backup files out from HDD to BD-R (really Verbatim M-Disc 100GB BDXL media) using ...
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Optical drive failing at specific disc locations: bad drive or bad disc?
I have an issue with my optical drive (DVD/Blu-Ray). It fails to read specific discs always at specific points on those discs. For example one disc always fails at the 49.5% point. Some other discs ...
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How do I redirect the virtual disk drive to open the program which requiring physical optical drive
Refer to this Q: Copy program from CD to USB but can't launch program after installation in window-10
I observed that I needed to put the CD into the physical optical drive after installation. ...
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Why are optical disc drives slower than hard disk drives?
I know that hard disks have faster access times and transfer rates and when I searched why it appeared that:
Hard disk drives spin much faster
If filled with helium this can decrease the energy ...
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Computer freezes during POST with new CD drive
I work with older computers and received a Compaq Presario 2275 with a non-working CD drive. After cleaning up the computer and testing it (it works fine), I swapped the original 32x CD drive with a ...
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Add context menu item for optical drive
What is the registry key(s) that controls the PC's optical drive right click context menu. Assume that I have a program called Erase.exe that would erase a RW/RE media (or any other exe for that ...
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Installing SATA3 SSD in HDD or SATA Optical drive
I have Dell Inspiron 5458 and want to replace my storage with SSD. The HDD is 6Gbps SATA 3 interface which is perfect for my new 6Gbps SATA 3 SSD. But my question is will I get same performance/speed ...
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Can a laser damage an optical disc?
I have an optical BD drive writer (Pioneer 209DBK) that has its open mechanism possibly compromised, since when I press the eject button or right click and eject from Explorer, sometimes it opens ...
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How to format a write protected DVD RW
I recently brought a motherboard, with which i got a DVD for installing the drivers.Now that i had installed all the drivers i want to format it for personal use.But when I try to do so an error pops ...
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Determining motherboard's optical drive SATA interface using SiSoftware Sandra
The problem is very simple: I plan to replace my optical disk drive with an SSD. The question is if the SSD would be bottlenecked more if installed in the optical disk drive's bay instead of the ...
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CD/DVD drive won't operate after installing Linux
I'm not sure if this problem is related to installing Linux, but I have a Dell desktop from many years ago (I can look up the model number if it's important) on which I installed Bodhi Linux a few ...
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What is the best way to use an external drive with a double USB plug on a laptop with only USB-C ports?
I have an external optical drive that has a double USB connector, presumably to supply more power to the drive. I have a 2019 16" Macbook Pro with only USB-C plugs.
Is there any risk of harming the ...
