If you depend on Apple MacBook for business computing tasks while you're on the road, you probably use the optical drive to perform necessary functions such as burning data backups to disc or for ...

More on Magneto Optical Drives Yesterday we reported problems with using Magneto Optical storage devices under Mac OS X 10.2.1 Jaguar. Among the quirks is an unpredictable inability to transfer large ...

Some Xbox One users are reporting problems with Xbox One refusing to read discs. After a disc is inserted, the screen shows a gear icon and the disc refuses to read. Microsoft has addressed this issue ...

Apple has updated a couple of knowledgebase articles that may be useful for people trying to troubleshoot either iPhone hardware or slot-loading CD drives that are available in a variety of Mac models ...

The US Copyright Office has announced a change to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that will let console owners repair the optical drives on their own devices ...

When hard-drive disaster strikes, you need to start up your Mac from another drive to repair it. In days gone by, you would typically boot from the install CD or DVD that came with your Mac (assuming ...