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Your CD drive doesn't recognize CD rw disk why not?

Anonymous

∙ 14y ago

Updated: 11/8/2022

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?

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∙ 14y ago

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A cd-rom drive

What part of the computer reads an optical disk?

The disk drive

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Depending on the format of the disk - A disk-drive, CD-ROM drive or DVD drive.

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zip disk drive floppy disk drive cd drive dvd drive

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A floppy drive or a CD drive or a DVD drive.

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It is possible that the drive may not be fast enough, incompatible with, or the operating system incompatible with (or not having proper drivers for) the CD-ROM Disk Drive.

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No a disk drive is neither input or output device, it is an optical disk drive (for CD/DVD's) and a disk drive (for hard drives) would be a storage device.

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A CD drive

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in gigabytes and megabytes :-)

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An CD-R drive is a Record only drive, an CD-RW drive can re-record to an Disk

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Assuming you only have 1 CD drive, you will need copy the data to your hard disk (or possibly a flash drive), remove the original disk from the CD drive, put the blank in, and burn the data that you copied to your hard disk.

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