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How to know if CD Drive can use CD-RW or CD-R

megamanyoutubermegamanyoutuber
in Hardware

It would been easier, if it just wrote that it is CD-RW supported thing, but it doesn't show so, it just says Compact Disc

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  • khimkhim

    If your CD-ROM is so old that it does not say if it supports CD-RW or not... then the only way to know is to try.

    CD-R and CD-RW are supposed to be fully compatible with all CD-ROM drives. But as usual on practice there were some CD-ROM drives which would only read certain brands of CD-Rs and CD-RWs. When that was important (IOW: when PlayStation was just released) people compiled lists of which brands are better.

    Now, when it's all in the past... I think the only way is to check.

  • megamanyoutubermegamanyoutuber

    @khim said:
    If your CD-ROM is so old that it does not say if it supports CD-RW or not... then the only way to know is to try.

    CD-R and CD-RW are supposed to be fully compatible with all CD-ROM drives. But as usual on practice there were some CD-ROM drives which would only read certain brands of CD-Rs and CD-RWs. When that was important (IOW: when PlayStation was just released) people compiled lists of which brands are better.

    Now, when it's all in the past... I think the only way is to check.

    should try it, after getting pc to boot up

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