At 02:11 PM 5/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Related back to the differences between CD-R and CD-RW disks, I have a
>situation and a question.
>
>My secretary ordered and received a large number of CD-RW disks instead of
>the CD-R's that I needed.  It is not cost effective for our company to
>return these disks so I was wondering if I could use these CD-RW's in my
>CD-R burner?  Of course I can't do the rewrite thing, but can I just write?
> TIA
>
Usually CD-RW is more expensive than CD-R. You can read CD-RW with newer
CD-ROMs, but you cannot write CD-RW with your CD-R Writer. Most new CD-RW
does write CD-R too.


Changhsu Liu

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