Highlight your preferred CD or USB drive and press Enter. Alternatively, you can set your computer to always check for a bootable CD or USB drive and change the boot order.

How to Reformat a Hard Drive with a Recovery CD. Your computer's hard drive stores important files, programs and data that your business can't do without. When programs won't launch or Windows ...

Use Network CD Drive Go to another computer connected to the same network router as the PC with the defective CD/DVD drive.

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.

AppleInsider explains how to remotely access the CD or DVD drive of another Mac or Windows PC from a Mac without the drive, across a network.

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

So the next time you put a blank CD into the drive, just ignore all the prompts for the fine-but-complicated CD-recording software loaded on your computer.

If the thumb drive or CD case had an official logo, that figure jumped to 90 percent. But there's reason for some caution. USB drives can fry your computer.