Optical drive is the optical drive, I believe that everyone usually uses it a lot. But do you know that cleverly running the CD-ROM under Windows can bring a lot of convenience to our work. This article will tell you a few practical tips for using CD-ROM under Windows for your reference.
1, a fixed letter
general, when we increased the storage device in the system, the drive letter will change, which gives us some inconvenience. In fact, as soon as we open "Control Panel"\\"System"\\"Device Management"\\"CDROM" and select the CD-ROM drive, open the "Properties"\\"Settings" window, the "Start Drive Number" and "End Drive Number" "After selecting the disk symbol you want (such as O:), no matter how you want to add and delete storage devices after restarting the system, the disk drive's disk symbol will not change.
2, the virtual drive
now colorful CD-ROM products, while their capacity is also rising, but every time I play games or use multimedia CD-ROM, CD-ROM drive that does not live up to expectations ( Even if it is called 40x speed and 50x speed, it will not only let you wait for a long time, but the overwhelming sound it makes when you turn will make you feel bad! In fact, at this time we should ask the virtual CD-ROM program to help, the virtual CD-ROM program can write the contents of the CD-ROM to the hard disk, and virtualize an optical disk drive, which is fast and convenient to use, and does not damage the CD, if you have one If the disc needs to be used repeatedly, and the "belly" of your hard disk is quite large, you can consider using a virtual optical drive. There are many virtual drive programs, such as Virtual Drive2000 (download address is http://www.farstone.com.), Virtural cd-rom (download address is http://www.spaceinter.com), CD Copier Gamers' Edition ( The download address is http://www.imsisoft.com), Paragon CD Emulator (download address http://www.paragon-gmbh.com), etc., they are used in different ways, the scope of application is also different, you can Your hobby is to choose one of them. If you need the Chinese version of the above software, you can download it at http://mengboy.yeah.net.
3, in the "safe mode" Using the optical drive
well known, and so often appear blue screen or crash phenomenon when using Windows. At this time, Windows will restart into "safe mode", but Windows can not use the optical drive in safe mode! In fact, as long as we create a new Config.sys file in the root directory of the hard disk, the file contents are:
device=C:\\Windows\\Command\\Ebd\\oakcdrom.sys /d:cdrom
Create a new C:\\Autoexec.bat file with the following contents:
C:\\Windows\\Command\\mscdex.exe /d:cdrom
After your system has failed, even if you enter Windows security The optical drive can also be used normally after the mode.
4,
CD burning with icons with burner and burning CD prices down, the recorder into the homes of ordinary people is no longer a big deal, and we can make by burning mechanism My own CD, but the CD made under Windows is inserted into the CD-ROM and the icon is the same, lacking personality. In fact, as long as we generate a file called autorun.inf in the root directory of the CD, and add a sentence:
Icon=cdrom.ico
and will fail oneself The cdrom.ico icon file is also dragged into the root directory of the CD-R and burned. The cdrom.ico icon is displayed in Windows Explorer later.
5, automatic identification UDF format discs
have a Philips recorder with CD-RW after WinOncd 3.6 Power Editin burning but found it impossible to read after burn a CD in the CD-ROM -R can be read normally on the CD-ROM. After downloading the Adaptec UDF Reader software from Adaptec's website http://www.adaptec.com and installing it, it can be read normally in the CDROM. The reason is that CD-RW is recorded in UDF (Univeral Disk Format) mode, and CD-R is recorded in ISO9660 standard or Joilet format, so CD-R can be read normally on CD-ROM. In order to read a CD-RW on a CD-ROM, the Adaptec UDF Reader software must be installed, and the CD-ROM must support MultiRead (now the general optical drive has this capability). In addition, any CD-R or CD-RW made with DirectCD software must also be supported by Adaptec UDF Reader software when reading on CDROM.
6, also let the software CD-ROM into the box
do not know if you have noticed, in Windows Explorer, right-click the drive icon, there is a "pop-up" in the slide-out menu Command, which can be used to open the optical drive box without manual operation, which is convenient and reduces hardware damage. But unfortunately, in Windows, you can't use the menu command to enter the optical drive into the box. In the "Super Jieba" software there is a program called the system server, which can play a software switch function of a CDROM drive, can make up for this shortcoming. The specific method is: after installing "Super Jieba", right click on the system server icon on the taskbar, and select the "Open all CD-ROM" command in the pop-up menu, you can all the CDs on this machine. - The ROM drive cover (including the CD-RW drive) is open for you to enter. If you want to close the cover, just select the "Close all CD-ROM" menu again. This is more convenient to use, and to reduce the damage of the hardware, it is really two birds. In addition, the system server also has an option "Eject all discs when shutting down". When we select it, the system will automatically eject all the CD-ROM drive cover for you to remove the disc each time you shut down. It is a bit of a hassle to forget to take the disk and turn on the power of the machine again.