I been burning CD's to store music on my Xbox but it does not read the disc, because it is CD-RW, so maybe it can read a CD-R, but im all out and im trying to delete the data on them, any ideas?
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i find that the best way to erase data from a cd-r is to frisbie it at a wall.\nseriously-use nero on ur computer.\nyou will loose space on the disk though. there is no way to get round this.
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been there too. cd rw disks are unmanagable. i cant find a decent brand that i dont encounter a problem. first you have to format it which takes too long. and when you use another computer it wont be recognized. so what i do now is just use cdr which is much cheaper than rewritables. i just transferre my previous backups to cdr. i used the original drive to read and write to another media. or you can transfer the old cdrw to your new computer. it is not advisable to have a combo on a desktop cause if it breaks then you lost both functionality.
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Same thing happen to me when I burned one from imash and I had to buy a new cd player for my car in order to play it. I was told that all cd player will not play all burned cd's.
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There are programs that let you do that to regular CD-Rs. One is from Roxio which is bundled in their burning suite. (however, i do think you have to use that program from the beginning, you cant just use it on any cd, i BELIEVE, not sure though). I cant remember what its called, sorry. Otherwise, use CD-RWs & throw that disk away and start over.\n\nSorry!
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Hi there, \n\nIt can be used to burn CD-R/RW as well. I have DVD+/-RW dual layer with lightscribe technology and I burn CD's without any problem.\n\nHope this helps. Bye!!\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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This is a CD burner/DVD reader combo drive.  You can burn CDR and CDRW.  You can even reading DVD.  But you cannot burn DVD.  Otherwise it will say DVD+-R and/or DVD+-RW.  It didn't say either so it is likely that you will not be able to burn DVD.  You can forget about it.  Even with Nero you will not be able to burn DVD.  If you can burn DVD with this drive, there must be something wrong with the label or they put the drive in a wrong box and sold it to you so you are very lucky but I don't think anyone can be that lucky so you probably will not be able to burn DVD.  I hope that I made it clear to you.
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if its a rewritable cd, try to erase it first. although the best quality cd's for music would be a cd-r.
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A CD-R cannot be formatted. It is a "write once read many" media which comes preformatted and data can only be added to it but never deleted. In order to delete/format you will require a CDRW which uses a different technology altogether. try using a CDRW and it should work fine.\n\nYou can still use your CD-Rs for backing up your data. Just don't try formatting... simply burn it using the burner software that you have.
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if u want to MODIFY a file save to your desktop do the changes and reburn to a CD-R or CD-RW  u can't change a file that is on a CD has the file is deamed READ_ONLY and is unchangeable even on a CD-RW DISK to save the wasting of a CD-RW save all the files to a folder wipe the CD_RW change the file u want or update has needed then reburn the CD_RW personly for a lot of files a DVD-RW disk in data mode is a nice thing to do has u can store 4500mb of data on a singel DVD-rw disk (needs a DVD burner and nero) i hope this helps you
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Use CD-R disks if you want to keep something permanently and CD-RW disks if you want to be able to put more stuff on it or erase something you put on it.\n\nWith the RW disks, I would not try to rewrite to them more than a couple of times because you might lose some of the sound integrity with multiple erasures.
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The format is not a CD format. If you are going to burn a game, make sure the game format is correct, and burn it on a DVD. As well, burn at the slowest speed. You may need a mod-chip installed for some games.
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Wow, those are a lot of good questions...\n\nO-K.\n1)What kind of problems might occur if you tried to use an older CD-ROM drive or a CD player to play a CD-R or a CD-RW disk?\n\nSome older drives can't recognize a CD-R or CD-RW.\nThe best bet is that when you are "burning a CD-R or CD-RW that you will use on an older drive (or player), make sure to finalize or "Close" the CD. Older drives can't read a CD that is still "Open". The only problem with this is that once the CD is closed, you can't write to it any more.\n\n2)On a CD disk, is data written in concentric circles or in a continous spiral trak?\n\nA combination of both.\nA CD burner starts on the most inside trak and writes a complete circle until it finds the begining of the circle, then it moves up  one space and writes another circle, working its way toward the outside. You can tell this by looking at different CDs that you have burned. The ones with more data will have more burned area toward the outside of the disk.\n\n3) Can CD hold videoa data?(Explamation)\n\nYes, but not in "DVD" format.\nYou can copy any type of media file to a CD (mpeg, mov, avi, wmv, whatever) as data, but to play these files, you would have to open the files on you PC with a media player.\nBUT... You can use some files (mpeg2 / mpeg4, I believe?)\nto create a VIDEO-CD that will play on most DVD players.\nA VIDEO-CD in NOT a DVD, and it does not require a DVD+R to be created. You can burn a VIDEO-CD on to a regular writable CD.\n\n4) What does the X factor of a drive indicate? What is the specification of oneX?\n\nThe X factor, I like that!\nThe X stands for "times", like multiplication.\n1X = the absolute slowest.\n4X = 4 time "normal" speed.\n16X = 16 times "normal" speed\nAnd so on.\nObviously, the higher the"X Factor", the faster the drive will \nRead / Write / Erase-ReWrite.\n\nBy the way...\n1x for a CD means 150 KB per second\n1x for a DVD = 1.35 MB per second\n\nI hope this helps!\n\nGood Luck, and Happy Surfing!
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it depends on many things\n1- if you are doing it right that is burning an Audio cd but it does not work on your cd player it means that u r using the wrong speed try using a speed for burning below 16x\n\n2- if you are not doing it right that is burning not audio cd then it just wont work.
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I think it's a mechanical problem you are facing. Is your CD Burner able to read a CD contents?? If yes then there is some problem in writing head. Try to restart your machine and load again Nero see wheather it runs... Otherwise you have to call the Vendor for CD Burner to short out the mechanical problems
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If all of the above suggestions don't help check if the CD you  would like to listen to is crippled. The music industry did experiment with different technologies to make copying of music CDs impossible. One way to achieve this is by not following the CD standards and adding certain faults on purpose. These faults are corrected by most CD players but not by CD ROMs in PCs.
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DVD is a different format with respect to CD RW. If your hardware supports only CDs for reading and burning, then there's no possibility of it reading the DVD. As you mentioned that you have a laptop, I guess it should be a DVD combo, i.e. DVD read only and CD Read/Write support, because that is the standard in laptops. I rarely have known a laptop model which has a CDRW drive, excepting if it is older than 2 years. You can check the DVD logo on the side of your drive. \n\nIn case it is a cdrw and you need to play a dvd, you need a computer with dvd drive on your network neibourhood. Just share the DVD drive on that computer, and you can access the DVD drive as your own drive. Best of luck on the experiment.
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Some CD burners won't write the subcodes used on CD+G karaoke discs, though some will. All drives can read them. If you had a burner that could write these subcodes and could incorporate these into the functionality of the disc, that would give you some protection.