A DVD is a movie disc. A CD is a music disc. Your DVD drive cant recognise cds because it is probably from an old computer. try downloading whatever is on the CD from the internet.
I have a Dell Inspiron computer with operating system Vista Home Premium and I'm having trouble with my CD drive. It will not read most CDs, it will play the music CDs, but when I try to copy data, it says insert CD when a CD is already inserted. I've tried CD-RWs, an auto save photo CDs which I just purchased and they do not work. The drive does not recognize them. I have a Dell Inspiron computer with operating system Vista Home Premium and I'm having trouble with my CD drive. It will not read most CDs, it will play the music CDs, but when I try to copy data, it says insert CD when a CD is already inserted. I've tried CD-RWs, an auto save photo CDs which I just purchased and they do not work. The drive does not recognize them.
There are some distinctive differences between a blu ray drive and a cd drive although they are both examples of optical media. I think a blu ray drive can read cds and dvds as well as blu ray cds while a cd drive only reads cds.
That is a DVD burner. Most read and write to CDs as well as DVDs. Hybrid drives that read/burn CDs but only read DVDs also exist.
Quite simply, a device that reads data CDs (such as those one install software from). CD drives can also be used to play music CDs.
AnswerIt may be quite possible that your CD-Drive was not equipped with a +RW reading feature. The CD may not also be recognized due to an over excessive amount of scratches on the reverse side of the disk. Try checking your CD-Drive capabilities. Some CD-Drive disc readers may also only read DVD+R Disc's. That could also be why. The above is a terrible answer. Yes its possible but not likely that the drive is not capable of RWs, but most computers made in the last 7 or so years are. And there are no drives that will read DVDs only but NOT read CDRWs. Drives that could burn CDs came first, and later when the DVD writing drive came out they all had the ability to do CDs too.Also they never actually answer the question of why the drive wont recognize the RW discs if its supposed to but wont. Where do you get these people?
The only way i have is through CDs. Usb wont work, however you can play the music off of the mp3 or ipods if their connected to the Xbox 360.
You can't. Only R/W CDs can be overwritten. Most cheap (and all commercial music) CDs are write once, read many disks.
Wii doesn't play CDs.
Typically a drive marked as being a 'CD' or a 'CD RW' drive, will not be able to read a DVD. You will need one marked as being at least a 'DVD' drive, which will be able to read DVDs and CDs too.
A drive that is capable of writing to DVDs will almost always be capable of writing to CDs as well. A drive that can read DVDs is not necessarily capable of writing to a CD.
This is a hard drive: http://askbobrankin.com/hard-drive.jpg This is a CD ROM Drive http://www.jpmccom.net/store/images/cdrom_cd5225_bk.jpg As you can see they look Different...
One can buy CDs with retro music either online or in stores that sell music CDs. Stores that sell CDs include Target, Best Buy, Tescos, HMV and CEX. Websites that sell CDs include Amazon, Ebay and Play.