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This Month's CD-R/CD-RW Drives Tip: Test Your Tracks First CD-R/CD-RW

To avoid wasting CD-Rs, test a project on a CD-RW disc first and make sure it works properly. Unfortunately, you'll have to erase the CD-RW completely beforehand, which can take a half hour or longer. You also have to format it in DirectCD mode before you can use it for random-access file storage again, and that can take more than an hour. If you plan to do this kind of thing regularly, buy some extra discs so you have plenty on hand in the required formats. If you've got CD-R/CD-RW Drives tips of your own that you'd like to share, submit by email to us. " "