Using Blank Cd-Rs, Cd-Rws, Dvd+Rs, And Dvd+Rws; Helpful Tips - Dell Inspiron 8600 Owner's Manual

• If you have two CD or DVD drives, select the drive into which you have inserted your
source CD or DVD and click Copy. The computer copies the data on the CD or DVD to
the blank CD or DVD.
Once you have finished copying the source CD or DVD, the CD or DVD that you have created
automatically ejects.

Using Blank CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVD+Rs, and DVD+RWs

Your CD-RW drive can write to two different types of recording media—CD-Rs and CD-RWs
(including High-Speed CD-RWs). Use blank CD-Rs to record music or permanently store data
files. After creating a CD-R, you cannot write to that CD-R again without changing your method of
recording (see the Sonic documentation for more information). Use blank CD-RWs to write to
CDs or to erase, rewrite, or update data on CDs.
Your DVD-writable drive can write to four different types of recording media—CD-Rs, CD-RWs
(including High-Speed CD-RWs), DVD+Rs, and DVD+RWs. Blank DVD+Rs can be used to
permanently store large amounts of information. After creating a DVD+R disc, you may not be
able write to that disc again, depending on whether or not the disc is "finalized" or "closed"
(the final stage of the disc creation process). Use blank DVD+RWs when you will need to erase,
rewrite, or update the information on that disc later.

Helpful Tips

• Use Microsoft
you start Sonic RecordNow and open a RecordNow project.
• You must use CD-Rs to burn music CDs that you want to play in regular stereos.
CD-RWs do not play in most home or car stereos.
• You cannot create audio DVDs with Sonic RecordNow.
• Music MP3 files can be played only on MP3 players or on computers that have
MP3 software installed.
• Do not burn a blank CD-R or CD-RW to its maximum capacity; for example, do not copy a
650-MB file to a 650-MB blank CD. The CD-RW drive needs 1 or 2 MB of the blank CD to
finalize the recording.
• Use a blank CD-RW to practice CD recording until you are familiar with CD recording
techniques. If you make a mistake, you can erase the data on the CD-RW and try again.
You can also use blank CD-RWs to test music file projects before you record the project
permanently to a blank CD-R.
See the Sonic support website at support.sonic.com for additional information.
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