What can you do with a CD-ROM, CD-R , CD-RW, DVD-RW, or DVD-ROM?

Duplicate CDs. Save music, pictures, data to CD-ROMs. Copy DVDs. Replace your tape back up process. Save money on buying extra hard drives. Start a high quality media duplication service. Organize and put your whole photo albums on CD and pass them out to your family and friends.

Is it true that when burning a CD at 48 theres a huge chance of the Burner making mistakes ?

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There is a lot of talk about this problem, and just wanted to make sure it was true. Depends on the brand of the CD-RW, the brand of the actual media, the software in use and how much of a cache the Drive has (Example 2MB, 8MB, etc) If you have a good drive with BurnProof protection, it is becoming less and less of a problem.

How do you create a data CD?

You need a few things, a CD recorder, software that does the recording process and data on your hard drive. You can create a CD with data from your hard drive or rather you can copy this data to the CD-ROM. Writing to CD-Rs and/or CD-RWs requires a CD recorder. You can't write CDs with an ordinary CD-ROM drive.
Once you have the required items, the software should be pretty simple to use. You select the files you want to copy and begin the process.

The process can be different for different recorders. If you have “packet writing" software, and a recorder that supports it, the process is very similar to coping data on a floppy. With other software you usually end up writing everything to the disc all at once. When you're doing the writing you can't interrupt the drive, and you can't reclaim the space you've used.

What is the difference between CD-R and CD-RW?

CD-R means "CD-Recordable". Recordable CDs are Write Once, Read Multiple type of media that work just like standard CDs. The advantage of CD-R over other types of optical media is that you can use the discs with a standard CD player. The disadvantage is that you cannot copy or record data more than once. You can only copy data once and only at one-time.

CD-Rewritable or CD-RW allows you to reuse them or copy data files multiple times on the same disc. However, not all CD-RW media works in all players. A note, all CD recorders can read CD or CD-ROM disc.
Will a DVD worth with a CD recorder?

Not today <smile>. A CD and DVD are formatted very differently, so you cannot write DVDs with a CD recorder. Maybe in the future, the technology will change. However, DVD recorders can work with DVD-R and CD-R.

Problems with CDs and DVDs

A computer system with a CD-writer that can write 16X but I can only get the PC to write at 4X. Why is that?

Maybe you can try this:
Is in your CD burning software copying to your hard disk first or not at all?
Make sure your CD media can write at 16x.
Make sure your not running other programs or taking up memory.
Is your computer have a fast enough CPU to run the software?

Finalizing the CD takes up most time though.The difference between 52 and 48 speed is only a couple seconds. 48x = 36 * 150kbit/s = 7,2MB a second.
This speed you can burn a 800mb cd in less then 2 minutes.

Learn how to copy CDs.