I'm no mac guy myself but someone I know has one and wanted me to put windows on it for his other stuff via boot camp. After reading up a bit it seems you can install win2k after swapping out the ...

I have a Dell Studio laptop that fried - it is totally dead. I'm sending it back to Dell, but there is a disk in there that I need to remove first. The Dell tech support guy told me that there is no ...

PowerBook G4: How to Eject a Disc From the DVD-ROM Drive TIL article #88068 explains the standard methods for ejecting a disc from the new PowerBooks. The first two methods will not work if you have ...

Ever yanked out a USB without ejecting it first? The consequences aren't always instant, but what goes on behind the scenes might surprise you.

When you try to eject a CD or DVD, you see a message – An error occurred while ejecting DVD RW Drive, then this post offers some suggestions that may help you ...

If you’re a Mac OS X user, you may have noticed that sometimes disks don’t want to eject. Also, the operating system occasionally reports that a disk is in use when it’s not. Real Software has a ...

For years, the rule has always been to eject your USB drive before removing it from your computer. Of course, a lot of people ignore this outright and just yank the drive, and for the most part, their ...

If going to the Finder to eject disks from your Mac is too much of a pain, the folks at Beyond Midnight Software want you to try EjectDisk 3.2, a utility that lets you eject disks while working in ...

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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and commerce. He joined in 2018, and served as commerce editor at Polygon until May 2025. If you still use discs in your Xbox One, you might be happy to ...