THQ's Divisional Executive Vice President Jack Sorenson dove into the debate over the death of PC gaming with the claim that "disc-based software is on a permanent decline." Sorenson believes the ...

If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

The Amicool external CD/DVD drive is currently on sale for close to the lowest price it’s ever been: $20.99 (was $28.99).

Disk Repair also attempts to make it so you cannot run any programs on your computer. If you attempt to launch a program it will terminate it and state that the program or hard drive is corrupted.

No matter how new or safe you believe your computer is, you must keep disaster prevention in mind when working with sensitive data. You should always create one or more backups of important files, ...

Before this year even started we guessed Apple might make a play to reduce its use of hard drives and CD/DVD drives…and then in July we added to the story because the kind folks at Cupertino concurred ...

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If you change your computer regularly, your present computer probably does not have a floppy disk drive. The 3.5-inch floppy disk was a ubiquitous medium used for storing data a couple of decades ago.

If you buy Fallout 4 for PC on a disc, you'll need to download a whack of content from Steam. Fallout 4 won't ship entirely on-disc for PC; you'll need to activate ...

When you work for a company, you sometimes have to just do what you are told, even if it doesn’t make sense. What would you do if you were assigned a PC that was also running a critical application, ...

Disk Optimizer will then prompt you to scan your computer, which will then find a variety of errors that it states it cannot fix until you purchase the program. When you use the so-called defragment ...

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