[78-L] CD-RW

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. bratcher at pdq.net
Thu May 6 19:16:02 PDT 2010


At 03:20 PM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
>Sharpies designated as safe for CDRs I assume you mean. Water based, not
>the regular stuff
>
>joe salerno
>\

Yes. I got them at Microcenter....

>Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> > At 08:35 AM 5/6/2010, you wrote:
> >> I have CDRs (not CD-RWs) from much earlier in the CDR era which read
> >> fine, despite all the warnings posted about their unreliability. I even
> >> put sticky labels on some before I knew better. But there are too many
> >> verified instances of failure to ignore it all. No doubt the ones that
> >> fail first are the ones that would be hardest to replace.
> >
> > I've got some church sermon CD's I bought in 2003 & 2004 (with the
> > church label on them) & a lot of those have gone unreadable. I throw
> > them away as I get to them. I'd never put a label on a disc. Sharpie
> > or inkjet printable media only!!
> >
> >> I see from your post that you must have some other means of storage,
> >> otherwise you would not be able to reburn.
> >>
> >> joe salerno
> >
> > Yep, CD's & DVD's with no labels on them plus 2 external hard drives.
> >




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