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 ...

This is weird. Is my cd-rom bad?KT-7 with the 7N bios and it hangs on bootups when detecting ide drives.The screen just says "detecting ide drives," or something like that.If I open the cd-rom ...

Opening a folder automatically on a Mac when a CD is inserted saves you a step when you simply want to view the contents of a CD inserted into your CD-Rom drive. By setting your preferences ahead ...