Think of it: you can toss that kludgey 20-disk CD-changer out of the car boot and still have every tune you own at your disposal when on the road.

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The modules never come with a disk or CD-ROM, and there are no drivers to transfer or InstallShield wizard to run.

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Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.

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But when you get there and pop it into the little player on your desk, you hear a voice say, 'We're sorry, but you are only authorized to play this disk on up to two CD players.

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The average road warrior wants a laptop loaded with megabytes of memory, a high-speed processor, a vivid color screen, a modem, a CD-ROM player, and plenty of disk space.

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Here's how to create a boot disk that does let you access the CD-ROM drive.

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The 4420 will also offer "random erase technology" that lets you use a CD-RW disc just like a floppy or hard disk -- adding or deleting individual files at any time.

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You can create a boot disk in Windows 95 using the same procedure, but the disk won't give you access to your CD-ROM drive, which is necessary if you have to reinstall Windows.

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The notebook's external storage options include a LS-120 SuperDisk drive (which also supports 3.5-inch floppy disks), a CD-ROM drive, a DVD ROM drive and hard disk drive options of up to 20G bytes.

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Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. today announced future versions of its Rio MP3 devices will include the IBM disk drive, allowing listeners to store several hours of CD-quality music, according to the statement.

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