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.

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 However, they're quickly becoming outdated.

Have you ever given or sold a PC to somebody else, but really wanted to completely wipe the hard drive first? Today we'll show you how to use an Ubuntu Live CD to get your personal information off ...

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.

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.

Restore a backup image to your existing hard drive or another one in the event of total hard drive corruption or loss. Restore selected data if you do not need the entire OS restored.