Simon Review (Occasional Papers of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute) by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contactopensiuc@lib.siu.edu. Recommended Citation. Jackson, John S. The Making of a Senator: Barack Obama and the 2004 Illinois Senate Race. (Aug 2006).
Definition - What does Optical Drive mean? An optical drive is a type of computer disk drive that reads and writes data from optical disks through laser beaming technology. This type of drive allows a user to retrieve, edit and delete the content from optical disks such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray disks. Optical drives are among the most common computer components.
Two Methods: Windows Mac OS X. A flash drive is a small and portable electronic device that saves data using flash memory and connects to other devices via USB (Universal Serial Bus). Formatting your flash drive will delete all of the existing data and provide with a clean drive to store your files on.