Have you owned PCs for a while now? That is, over decades, not just a few years. Then you probably have dozens of backup CDs and DVDs sitting in your closet, waiting for you to get that data onto more ...

i was recently given a powermac 7300 with macOS 8.0 that had been upgraded to 8.1. the mac came with no OS instalation media. I hooked up my new mac to my ethernet switch and got it on the internet. i ...

I've got a whole bunch of loose and variously boxed literature sitting off to my left. Over to the right I've got a stack of CD cases sitting in front of 3 different types of Blank CDR stacks. In a CD ...

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. We all know we're supposed to back up our data; ...

From a reader: I would like to know how I can rip my old CDs and not lose them when I get a new computer. I have ripped them once before using iTunes but didn’t realize they were stored on my PC and ...

CDs and DVDs can store a lot of data, but over time they have a tendency to get lost or damaged. When either of these tragic events happens the data on the disc becomes unusable or impossible to ...