it can be used to write rewritable cd's
well, it depends on what kind of softwear you had to burn your cd.
If the CD is a CDR is can only be Used Once.If the CD is a CDRW it can be erased and used multiple times.
The laser in the drive is the device that actually reads or writes data from and to the CD/CDRW/CDR.
DVD-Rom can play DVDs, a burner can play and copy DVDs. That's right, but what's more, a burner can be a DVD burner or a burning software which is able to convert and burn videos and movies to DVDs so you could play it on your DVD player.
types of optical disc drive are: cd,dvd,blueray,cdr,cdrw,dvdrw,mp3,mp4
The Coby MP-CD450 features CD and CDRW playback as well as MP3 capabilities.
If you are running Windows XP you can right click on the file and choose "send to" and then choose "CDRW Drive" if you are running and older version of Windows you will need CD Burning software such as Roxio Easy CD Creator to name just one.
how to clear cd-rw discs & dvd-rw discs..?
Any discs that have "RW" on them. An example "CDRW" - Compact Disc, ReWritable
The CD has to be CD-RW to be able to delete whats on the disk and add something new.
It is a CD, DVD, Blue Ray, CDR, CDi, CDRW, DVDRW, MP3, MP4, or any of a dozen other varieties of laser data readers.