CD-R vs CD-RW

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I have a new laptop with a CD burner. My old laptop can play music CDs. With
my new laptop, I burned a large file onto a CD-RW and want to transfer the
file to my old laptop. The older laptop will not read the CD-RW. Can I burn
the file on to a CD-R and have the older laptop recognize it? Or, is there
another way (the older laptop does not have a USB port and the file is too
big for a floppy (and I don't have a zip drive).
Thanks.
 
peedee said:
I have a new laptop with a CD burner. My old laptop can play music CDs. With
my new laptop, I burned a large file onto a CD-RW and want to transfer the
file to my old laptop. The older laptop will not read the CD-RW. Can I burn
the file on to a CD-R and have the older laptop recognize it? Or, is there
another way (the older laptop does not have a USB port and the file is too
big for a floppy (and I don't have a zip drive).
Thanks.
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if your old laptop is capable of being networked then you can easily
transfer the files from one computer to another.
 
Thanks darkshadow, but the older computer cannot now be networked. It can
only be 'linked' without cost via its CD-ROM drive.
 
peedee said:
I have a new laptop with a CD burner. My old laptop can play music
CDs. With my new laptop, I burned a large file onto a CD-RW and want
to transfer the file to my old laptop. The older laptop will not read
the CD-RW. Can I burn the file on to a CD-R and have the older laptop
recognize it? Or, is there another way (the older laptop does not have
a USB port and the file is too big for a floppy (and I don't have a
zip drive). Thanks.
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How did you create the cd-rw? If you used packet-writing software (like
InCD or DirectCD) then that is why the cd is unreadable. You would need
the same software installed on the old laptop or a udf reader.

If this describes what you did, then just burn the file to a cd-r (not a
cd-rw) and the old laptop will be able to read the data. This is a
better solution than using cd-rw anyway and now you know why.

Malke
 
peedee said:
I have a new laptop with a CD burner. My old laptop can play music CDs.
With
my new laptop, I burned a large file onto a CD-RW and want to transfer the
file to my old laptop. The older laptop will not read the CD-RW. Can I
burn
the file on to a CD-R and have the older laptop recognize it? Or, is there
another way (the older laptop does not have a USB port and the file is too
big for a floppy (and I don't have a zip drive).
Thanks.
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Windows XP Pro support direct burning on CD-R and your old laptop must
recognize all of them.
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You can try. Some brands of CD-R work better in older CD-ROM drives. Try
the "silver" ones as opposed to the "green" or "blue" dye ones.
 
Bob, that's very helpful advice as well. Thanks

Bob I said:
You can try. Some brands of CD-R work better in older CD-ROM drives. Try
the "silver" ones as opposed to the "green" or "blue" dye ones.
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