How to Start Up a Dell Computer by CD. When your Dell computer boots up, it references a list of bootable devices contained in the computer's BIOS. The computer will start at the top of the list ...

When I insert the CD and doubleclick the drive icon, the app starts and works fine. OK, but I would like to copy all that to my hard drive so I don't have to keep track of the CDs.

This way, next time you want to wipe your hard drive clean and start fresh with Windows, you can restore your backup image instead of suffering through Windows' tedious installation again.

After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up on more notebooks and desktops as an alternative to two separate drives.

Windows doesn’t recognize DVD or can't find DVD/CD drive? If your CD/DVD drive is not detected, showing, reading, working, or will not read/write media on Windows PC, then see this.