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Direct CD or CD-RW Drive Problem

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nino

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was wondering if you could help me out.
I've scrapped several CD-RW's trying to go back and forth from school to home. Writing data to the CD-RW using Direct CD at home is just fine. The problem occurs when I bring that CD up to school and try to use the school's CD-RW and Direct CD. If the CD was written to previously using Direct CD at home then the CD becomes corrupted by the school's burner. Both software packages are identical. Shouldn't the packet format be the same regardless of the burner. I have another friend that ran into the exact same problem. I also have a friend that is using NTI's package and ran into the same problem. Shouldn't packet writing format be standardized so that a CD formatted using Direct CD CAN truly be used as a floppy. It appears that this isn't the case.
I'm trying to figure out why this occurs. Among us we have 6 CD-RW's that don't work. Once the CD becomes corrupted the CD-RW won't even recognize the CD to erase it.
 
This is an all too common problem, and I haven't heard of a work-around other than to not use RW's. That's why I quit using them.

If you write them in one machine, can you read them in another? I haven't had any problems with that. But writing on a different machine than the one that formatted the disc has never worked a single time for me.
 
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