We just bought a new XP compaq with a DVD-ROM and Writer drive. We wanted to
be able to make a back up of any files we have. On our old system, a HP Win
'98 which had a CD-Writer. With that machine we used CD-RWs to create data
storage disks. With the new system, we were told it is cheaper to use DVD-Rs
(equivelent to CD-Rs) and just burn the files to the disk.
My question is with CD-RWs we could continue over time to add to the disk.
With the CD-R or DVD-R we cannot do that, although one sales person did
mention burning leaving it as an open session so we COULD add to the disk.
How do we do that? I could not find anywhere in the burning process which
gave me an option to leave it as an open session. Secondly, because we're so
new to XPs and basically to computers, is writing to a disk the same as
burning a disk? On the XP I noted that I can drag and drop files onto the
disk just like I could with the CD-RWs as well as go through the 'burn a
disk' process. What is the difference?
Silk
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