Chapter 4:

Sharing Your CDs

How you write your data to CD and the type of CDs that you use will determine who else can read the data from your discs. This chapter briefly explains some of the options you have in creating CDs that can be shared with others using different computer and CD setups.

Varying Formats

CD technology has progressed rapidly over the last few years from CD- ROM to writable CD, and on to the technology you now own in your rewritable CD-Writer Plus. One of the results of these developments is that data can be written in several formats and on different types of CDs.

Sharing CDs across Different Formats

Using CD-RW Discs

When should I use CD-RW discs?

CD-RW media is the ideal solution for extended personal storage on your own machine. You can write, erase, and rewrite data easily from applications and from the Windows Explorer. Your CD-Writer Plus drive, coupled with CD-RW media, can function as an extension of the hard drive on your machine. Use CD-RW media:

■To save work in progress like presentations, documents, etc.

■Make weekly archives of files on your hard drive.

■Shuttle files between the office and home if you have a CD-Writer Plus at each location, or have an external CD-Writer Plus to use on both computers.

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