[Q] If you put a CD/RW in A CD/R with you be able to use the CD/RW again?

[Aquaman]

If you put a CD/RW disc in A CD/R will you be able to use the CD/RW again? My friend has an old CD/R and his friend gave him a CD/RW disc and he was wondering if he burned something on this CD/RW in his CD/R.......... will he be able to use the CD/RW again? On freind said it should be ok but another said it would be ruined. Anyone have any idea? Thanks.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[SocrPlyr]

nope, once burned as a CD-R always is a cd-r...
the disk is now permanently burned w/ that data

Josh

 

[DeRusto]

I'm not even sure if a CD-R drive will recognize the media..but if it does, it will burn it as a regular cd-r disc

 

[pm]

This is a good question. I would bet that the "ruined" answer is the right one. I would bet that the laser would have far too much energy for the CD to be erased and rewritten later. Whatever was written would probably end up being permanent.

But I don't know.

 

[Gunbuster]

AFAIK a CDR drive can not burn a CDRW at all

 

[Aquaman]

Night time Bump.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
If you put a CD/RW disc in A CD/R will you be able to use the CD/RW again? My friend has an old CD/R and his friend gave him a CD/RW disc and he was wondering if he burned something on this CD/RW in his CD/R.......... will he be able to use the CD/RW again? On freind said it should be ok but another said it would be ruined. Anyone have any idea? Thanks.

Cheers,
Aquaman

I vote for "trying" it. The CDRW disks just aren't that expensive . . . let us know if it works (or not).

 

[RSMemphis]

Your CD-R burner won't be able to burn the CDRW disk.

But it also cannot change it either. A CDRW disk will always stay rewriteable.

 

[Mark R]

The drive should reject the disc, and not even attempt to record on it.

Even if it does manage to burn the disc, while it certainly won't be readable, I think it is unlikely to ruin the disc, as CD-RW needs a higher power laser than CD-R.

 

[bacillus]

not sure if I understand this correctly but you can burn a cdrw as a cdr & then erase & rewrite it.
I do it all the time with my burner with no problems reading the disks so produced!

 

[Aquaman]

Originally posted by: bacillus
not sure if I understand this correctly but you can burn a cdrw as a cdr & then erase & rewrite it.
I do it all the time with my burner with no problems reading the disks so produced!

Yeah but are you doing it on a CD-R or a CD-RW burner?

Cheers,
Aquaman