A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original ... In lieu of an optical recovery disc, vendors often store the recovery image on a separate partition on the hard drive.

If you are a 90s kid, then chances are that you are not unaware of the Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). They played a ...

But the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and improved hard disk capabilities marked the beginning of the end for floppy disks.

So there was Ken, proverbially standing at the altar with his optical disc drive in his hands. And, indignant, he went back to the leadership at Sony at the time and said: 'All I need is an OS and ...