Can i overwrite a cd r

New posts Trending Search forums. What's new. New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. Forums Hardware Components. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. Dec 12, 88 1 35 1. Mar 16, , 9, , 22, There are rewritable CD,'s and write once CD's.

Only if you have a rewritable. Also, if you write some data to a CD, but do not "finalize it", it might be possible to write some more info to it. But you can't erase and write all new, unless it is a rewritable. If it is already prewritten with data, you almost certainly cannot write more to it. Eximo Titan Ambassador. May 27, 20, 1, 90, 4, There are a series of these, appear to be homework questions.

Oct 5, 21, 59, 1, The part after the dash tells you what it can do. CountMike Titan. Unfortunately if you have created an audio cd — you cannot. Audio discs are closed once burned to enable them to be played on any other player. If you want to create an audio disc you have to set up all the songs and burn in one session. If you want to burn the CD and then erase the CD and re-burn it again.

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A drop-down menu will appear. If you don't see Go in the menu bar, click the Finder or the desktop to make it appear.

Click Utilities. This option is near the bottom of the drop-down menu. Doing so opens a folder. Double-click Disk Utility. You'll find this grey, hard drive-shaped app in the Utilities folder. Select your CD's name. Click the CD's name on the left side of the window under the "Devices" heading. Click the Erase tab. It's at the top of the Disk Utility window. The CD's properties window will open. Click Completely. This option lets you completely erase the CD. Click Erase.

Doing so begins erasing your CD. This may take several minutes depending on how large the CD is. Once the process is complete, you'll receive a pop-up that says "You have inserted a blank CD", signifying that the CD is erased. What if my CD was formatted to be compatible with a CD player? I can't delete the data on the disc, and I tried the steps above, but it won't work.

When you "finalize" the CD to use in other players, it is no longer re-writable. Not Helpful 3 Helpful Depends on what type of CD you have purchased. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 3. If you have a CD-R, it doesn't work. You need a CD-RW in order for this to be re-written. Not Helpful 11 Helpful 6. Not Helpful 4 Helpful 4. Aditya Telang. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 0. Check on the CD specifically for "RW". If it's there, try to format your CD-RW from the system. It will delete data from the CD and make room for burning.

If that also does not solve your concern, then it is time to replace the CD-RW. A DVD-R can be used to burn data just once. After that, it cannot be deleted or re-written.