Stephan,
CD-RW disks can only be used in CD-RW capable drives.  Yes, the format is
different.  You can only read a CD-R disk in a non-writable drive if the
disk has been "closed" by the CD-R write software.

Jerry Rasmussen
Rasmussen & Bucklin Associates
Coral Springs FL
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Format of CD-R and CD-RW?


My CD-ROM drive can read data in a CD-R disc perfectly but it cannot
read anything in a CD-RW disc burned from the same CD-RW drive. Dose
CD-R and CD-RW Disc has different format? How could I make my CD-ROM
reading both?

Thank you!!


Stephen Lo

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