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How to erase a CD-RW in OS X and Windows

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
by Matt McCarty

OS X

  1. Interest the CD-RW 
  2. Open the program "Disk Utility"(found in Applications-Utilities)
  3. Navigate to the targeted CD and click Erase, make sure have selected the device icon and not the volume icon.

Windows

  1. Click Start
  2. My Computer
  3. Navigate to the CD and right click and then click "Erase this CD-RW"
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3 Comments

computerfreak

January 2nd, 2008
at 10:26pm

I like how you made it for OS X, but can you make a tutorial on how to erasea CD-R on Windows? That would be real helpful if you could do that.

computerfreak

January 11th, 2008
at 7:18pm

hey, how do you erase a CD-R in windows. not a CD-RW, a CD-R.

Matt

January 11th, 2008
at 8:20pm

You cannot erase a CD-R. The R stands for, recordable not re-recordable. Only RW, re-writable, disks can be rewritten on to.

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