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Questions tagged [cd-r]

CD-R is a recordable Compact Disk

A CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a variation of the Compact Disc invented by Philips and Sony. CD-R is a Write Once Read Many (WORM) optical medium, though the whole disk does not have to be entirely written in the same session.

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What prevents a CD-R from being rewritten?

I know it's kind of a dead / dying technology, but I was wondering what stops a CD-R from being rewritten like a CD-RW. Is it some sort of firmware on the disc, essentially in place to make people buy more CDs? Or is there a more technical reason,…
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Is it safe to use a regular marker (Sharpie, etc.) to write on a CD-R disc?

In the past I've used a special CD-R marker to write on CD-R's. But I'm wondering if it's OK to just use a regular felt-tip marker (Sharpie, etc.). (Obviously, a pen that you have to use pressure with (ballpoint, etc.) would NOT be safe.)
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How to burn rEfit .cdr or .dmg in Ubuntu or Windows?

I don't have Mac OS X installed on my MacBook Pro, but I have Ubuntu and Windows. I was following this website's instructions to boot faster into Ubuntu without a 30 second delay. However I can't even burn a rEfit CDR image. Do you know how to burn…
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What happens to unused data/space on a CD-R after burning?

I just burned a CD-R but I did not use all the data/space in it. I left about 2 minutes of music unused. After burning, I checked the CD-R and found that it was full. When I tried to burn to it, it says: Please insert a blank CD-R. What happened…
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Unique ID for ripping CD-Rs

I'm involved in a project where we are ripping thousands of CD-Rs that contain music. These are (usually) one off recordings and not in any music database etc. but we need a way to uniquely identify them when ripping in batches. The most affective…
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How to diagnose and interpret CD-R burn error codes coming from iTunes on Windows 7?

I’ve been trying to burn a bunch of CD-Rs in iTunes on Windows 7 and it seems like every time I get a different error (e.g. 4000, 4261, 4880, etc.). Unfortunately everything I search for online is vague, “Yahoo! Answers” type stuff with suggestions…
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Meaning of 16 in raw DAO16 CD-writing mode

Can anybody explain why is there 16 in the DAO16 (P and Q subchannels) writing mode's name? It should be 24 (one subchannel consists of 96 bits = 12 bytes) or 22 (if Q subchannel's CRC (16 bits = 2 bytes) is not written) as in DAO96 (P-W…
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How to burn a .cdr file using Fedora?

My Macbook crashed so I don't have access to DiskUtility to burn an OSX .CDR dvd. I have booted into Fedora with a LiveCD, but I cannot seem to find anything that will allow me to burn the cdr file to a dvd. I've tried renaming the .cdr file to a…
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Count total file size of many files in Windows

When I want to burn a CD R with lots of files, I have to make sure the total file size in my folder doesn't exceed the capacity of the disc (680MB). In Windows are there possibilities to check the total file size of a bunch of files. I put them in…
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Burning a CD-R Query

Sorry I have a few questions. If a CD-R already had either a jpeg or audio track on it would it then ask for the CD-R to be named when using it or is naming it only available if it is a blank CD-R being used for the first time? If a CD-R has…
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What is the CD-R track space overhead?

I have daily small backup with CD-R with ISO 9660 format, every days there is a new track/session. I know that I can add up to 99 tracks in a single disc, but how can I calculate wasted space by track open, indexes and so on?
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How do we calculate CD writing speed

I am doing a pass paper question of my exam and I got following question. What is the maximum amount of data that can be written within 1 second to a 52X CD-R using a CD Writer with a write speed of 24X ? When I calculate this I got 31.7. I have…
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CD-Rs and old CD drives

Are there any particular types or brands of CD-R's that are more likely to work on very old 1-4x CD-ROM drives? I have a very old Pentium 233mhz laptop that has a fully functioning CD drive, but it just cant seem to read the CD's I am burning. For…
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Unable to boot from a CD-R disk

I want to install puppy Linux in my MSI Megabook S270, as my laptop doesn't support usb flash drive for booting, so, I bought some CD-R disk and burn them with Free ISO burner but when I tried to boot my laptop from it is just booting my HDD os and…
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Does a blu-ray reader perform better at recovering faulty CD-R / DVD-R's?

I have some old, partially unreadable CR-R's and DVD-R's. I tried many CD and DVD drives using recovery tools like isopuzzle and so on, but unfortunately there are still missing sectors. Back in the days I verified all of them after burning, but I…
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