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The laser in the CD writer burns "dots" into the inner filling of the disk. This creates binary language that is read by a CD player. Binary is 1s and 0s, which translate into on or off.
The software can translate the binary code into a format recognizable by whatever tool uses the data (music player, MS Word, etc.). A re-writable disk has an inner filling that can be erased (restored to all 0s or 1s) and re-burned into new binary code. These disks can be reused up to 100 times but do cost more. ---------------------- The back side of a single-use CD appears to be a smooth, shiny surface with concentric grooves. But if you observe it under a microscope, you will find that it has a series of pits burned into it, with bumps left between them. The difference in the surface reflectivity is used to represent binary bits (0 or 1). On a rewritable CD, a phase-change alloy is applied to the writing surface. The energy of a laser can "melt" the material into an amorphous state, or re-crystallize it. The difference in reflectivity of the two states creates an analog of the pit-bump of single-use CD's. The reflected patterns are interpreted by the CD reader as binary data. The laser can also restore a location to the opposite state, allowing new data to be encoded.
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What is the name of the optical disk that you can save to multiple times?
Cdrw dvdrw
How do you erase a cdrw disk?
well, it depends on what kind of softwear you had to burn your cd.
How to Format a cdrw disk?
i have nooo clue there is something called try using google wattt:P
What is a Compact Disk- ReWrite?
Compact Disc ReWritable is a term used to refer to CDs that you can write data to multiple times.
Is there a way to fix a faded disk?
This depends what you mean. A CDRW left in the sun can be bleached, fade and loose data. A hard drive can faded over a period of about 10 years or so and loose data as the disk surface oxide demagnetises. In anycase, loss of data is just that, once it's gone it's not recoverable. Time to seek a back up solution.
What are the two types of optical drives?
CDR CDRW DVDR DVDRW Blueray
Jacob uses --------------------to write data onto a blanke compact disk and stores the CD as a backup for the clinic's forms.?
CD burner
Compact Disk -Rewrite?
its called CD-RW I think.
Where can you convert CD to mp3?
You can convert a CD to MP3 using a disk burner. A disk burner will burn the information on a CD and convert it to MP3 format where you can listen to the music.
Can you burn something to a disk that is already installed?
We can burn a disk when it is an re-writable disk even though it has data in it.But when it is an ordinary disk i.e., if it is an only writable disk with data in it,we cannot burn the disk with another data.
Can a double layer burner write to a single layer disk?
yes
When accessing a disk the amount of data transferred is?
If you are using the word "assessing" to read a disk then the amount of data you can transfer to the disk (write) is the remaining available free space on the disk. On the other side of the coin, the amount of data to can extract (cut) is the amount of data that is stored on the disk.
