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I recently encountered an issue where I needed to retrieve data from an old DVD backup disk, but I had no access to a disk drive on either my laptop or PC. Who even uses physical media these days? Well… this guy. It might be the first time in years that I’ve even thought about this problem, and definitely over a decade since I’ve used a CD/DVD to backup anything, but now that I want to access some of the old media I’ve found in the attic, I’m stuck. The number of times I’m probably going to use a…