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 DVD RW drive will read any sort of CD or DVD (except blue-ray but some might) and it will also burn to a writable or rewritable CD or DVD.
Depending on the model and features of the DVD player, some can play CD-RW and other formats. The printed materials supplied with the DVD player will state what formats the player can read/play.
A DVD-ROM should be able to read all formats of cd's. Including regular music cd's (CDA), CD-R (RW), DVD-R (RW).
Your drive is probably a CD-R(W)/DVD-ROM drive. These are not capable of writing DVDs, but only reading them.
A CD-RW drive or DVD-RW drive.
CD-R is Compact Disk - Read CD-RW is Compact Disk - Read, Write
A CD-R or CD-RW or DVD-R or DVD-RW will do.
A DVD multi recorder can both read and burn the various normal CD and DVD formats, i.e. CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RW.
Yes, you can. Just check that dvd-rw has the same interface.
Ok this one can be tough to answer. The firm answer is "It depends". Regardless of the age of the cd rom drive the determining factor is "format". For CDs there are many, there are (without the quotes) "+R", "+RW", "-R", and "-RW". Yes the + and the - signs are there on purpose. A drive that can read/burn in +R can read +R and -R, and +RW and -RW. a drive that can read/burn in -R or -RW, can ONLY read -R and -RW. If you look at your CD, somewhere on the label (and somewhere on the player usually) it will say if it's a + or - R. So if your drive is a CD-RW +R (or +RW) it can read either format. If it's a CD-RW -R (or -RW) it can only read other disks that are -R (or -RW). The -R format has kind of fallen by the wayside because the +R is so much more 'universal'. But there are many many burners out there that write and read only -R. I hope this helps answer your questions!
A CD-RW drive is able to Read CDs, VCDs, and write CD-R and CD-RW.
The LG 8x External USB DVD-DL / CD-RW drive reads and writes CDs, DVD +R and -R, DVD-DL and DVD+DL