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Can I burn a bootable ISO on a CD+RW or only on a CD+R ?

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Leslie Brooks

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Jan 9, 2008, 5:03:33 AM1/9/08
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Can I burn a bootable ISO on a CD+RW or only on a CD+R ?

I read somewhere in the past that burning a bootable image on a re-writeable media cause
often problems because the boot sector is NOT recognized successfully.

Is this true?

Do I have to setup some special options when I use a +RW (or -RW) ?

Les

Rod Speed

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Jan 9, 2008, 12:00:12 PM1/9/08
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Leslie Brooks <l...@adventure.com> wrote:

> Can I burn a bootable ISO on a CD+RW

Yep, I've done that heaps of times.

> or only on a CD+R ?

Nope.

> I read somewhere in the past that burning a bootable
> image on a re-writeable media cause often problems
> because the boot sector is NOT recognized successfully.

> Is this true?

Nope, the only problem I have ever had is that real old dinosaurs
with ancient cdrom drives dont like CDRWs as much as CDRs so
its not a great idea to put diagnostic stuff like Hiren's on CDRWs
if you want to use them in dinosaurs that ancient.

> Do I have to setup some special options when I use a +RW (or -RW) ?

Nope, not when using decent modern burner software like Roxio EMC.


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