stupid question about cd burning

[pulpp]

i am new to the world of cd burning, i have an 8X CD-R/4XCD-RW drive, now can you use regular CD-R media to make CD-RW CDs or you need special CD-RW media?

also once you make a CD-RW, and asya use it instead of a floppy, would it work on other computers in regular cd drives?


thanks.

 

[johnjohn320]

The answer to your second question is yes.

 

[PliotronX]

Unfortunately CDRWs are not the same as CDRs. A simple explanation is that CDRs are a one time thing because they have a kind of dye that gets burned away. Whereas the CDRW has a material that can be changed a thousand times. CDRWs can be read by CDROM drives that I think date after 96, but I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure that anything faster than 24X can read them. However, if you use a UDF writing software such as DirectCD or InCD, you will have to install a UDF reader on a computer in order to read the format. Also, due to overhead in UDF, you lose about a hundred megs of space. I recommend just burning CDRWs as if they're CDRs so that any computer can read them, and you don't lose capacity. When you want to write to the CDRW again, either start a new session on it, or erase and write to it again.

 

[Boonesmi]

cdrw is different media then cdr
most new cdroms can play cdrw media (all players can play cd-r)
alot of the older cdroms can't play cd-rw media

 

[Boonesmi]

oops someone answered before me and they did a better job of it too !!

 

[pulpp]

thanks guys