....although it can be done...The best disk media to format is a CD-RW disk which can be used over and over again...A CD-R can be formatted so that you can copy/paste or drag/drop files to it, BUT it will continue to fill up space and when the space on the disk is used, you're done. You can't erase it so it can be used again. CD-R's are burn once media.
In order to format a CD, you must have a CD-RW burner with the correct software. After the disk is formatted, it can be moved to another computer and used there, much like a formatted floppy disk. Two of the most common burning software brands today are Nero and Roxio, but the RecordNow software which comes with many XP computers also has an ability to format the CD. BE AWARE, the differing software companies will not always recognized each other's formatting. If you're going to use Roxio's DirectCD/Drag To Disk formatting at work, then make sure that all the office software is of that type.
When the software is installed, formatting a CD is easy. Place the disk in the drive, open the software, then choose "Format Disk".
Hope this helps.
Grif
how to format A cdr,plus can you then remove the formatted cdr without making it unreadable(then it would be "closed")?
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