The humble CD drive in your computer can be used for so much more than just playing music.
You can use it to convert your old record and cassette collection to CD, create a slideshow DVD of your old photos to watch on your TV, protect all the data on your PC, convert home movie tapes to disc, run entire operating systems from CD and much more.

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