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Installing CD-RW
See the ACME HOWTO site below for details on installing CD-RW
http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/pc/hardware/cdrw/cdrw.php

Installing Hard Drive
See this page for installing a hard drive

http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/pc/hardware/harddisk/harddisk.php

CD, DVD Jargon

CD-ROM, CD-R
(Compact Disk-Read Only Memory) A misnomer, as strictly speaking it is not memory but storage. Identical to standard music CDs. Currently the most popular medium for releasing programs on, as it can hold literally hundreds of times as much information as a standard floppy disk, about 650 Megabytes in total. Once a CD-ROM has been created its contents cannot be changed.

CD-RW
(Compact Disk-ReWriter) A CD drive which can create CDs, either audio or data, using special rewriteable CDs which are also often called CD-RWs. A CD-RW drive can also create ordinary CDs, though not rewrite them.

DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) A more advanced version of the standard CD which can hold far more information, now standard on most new PCs. Widely used for high-quality digital movies. DVD drives can usually also read ordinary CDs.

DVD RW, DVD Writer
(Digital Versatile Disk ReWriter) A DVD drive that can create ("write") rewriteable DVDs. There are several competing formats at the moment, largely incompatible with each other, though some drives support more than one format. It is likely that one of these formats will become standard in time, but at the moment it is not clear which. To add to the confusion, they tend to have very similar names : for example DVD+RW and DVD-RW are completely different formats, and incompatible with each other.

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