CD+Facts

CD Facts

It may be helpful to clarify a few facts relating to CDs and CD drives.

All this may seem obvious but it is worth spelling out

You can only write to CDs if you have a CD writer

A CD‐Rom drive can only read them

You need blank CDs on which data can be recorded

There are two main types of Recordable CDs ( CD‐R) can be written to only once

Re writable CDs ( CD‐RW) can be written to many times

You can add data to what is already there or Format and start again

There are different disc formats in use some CD‐Rom drives cannot read CD‐R or CD‐RW at all due to technical problems

Others will read CD‐R but not CD‐RW

There is no guarantee that a disc of a certain type, written on a particular drive using one specific software application will be readable by another CD‐Rom drive

The only way is to suck it and see until the industry sets up a universal standard

( So Beware of cheap old CD Drives. )