Abstract: A portable optical compact disk drive has a casing, a tray, an image capture unit and a control circuit. The casing has a tray-receiving cavity formed therein. The tray is capable of be accepted in the tray-receiving cavity via a free end of the casing, and, alternatively, being ejected from and placed into the casing. The tray has a disk-receiving window formed therein to carry the optical compact disk. The image capture unit is arranged in the casing, and records data stored on the surface of the optical compact disk loaded in the tray, while the tray is located in the tray-receiving cavity. The control circuit electrically connects the image capture unit to receive image information, and is capable of decoding the image information and transmitting the decoded image information to the peripheral circuit.