although many people think it is the bottom or "shiny" side, it's actually only a plastic holder the data is kept on the side that the title and/or graphics has been printed. it's true, i found out the hard way!
CD are made of two parts plastic and polycarbonate (the shiny part) the bottom side is just plastic and the top side is where all the data it. The CD drive uses a laser that reads the polycarbonate through the plastic. So you look at the top part of the CD and its missing some of the polycarbonate your definitely going to get skips.
The speed printed on a CD is the maximum speed it can be reliably written at. If you tried to get a PC to write at a speed of 24x using an 8x CD, the data more than likely will be corrupt.
Read-Only CDs (also known as CD-ROMs) are compact disks that have data printed into them in a factory and cannot be erased or rewritten with a computer's CD drive. These usually contain a driver for new computer hardware, or are used to install new software in a computer.
A CD is a way to store data. So if a virus has been written on the CD, then it can.
There's supposed to be 'CD-RW' written or printed on the Disc. Usually, it's either at the left or right side of the Disc.
the shiny side/smaller ring inside has the data coz u could put a cover on the other side
No one side only. The shiny side.
Answer: A CD drives is EIDE, a CD-R is a CD drives that can record or write data to a CD(the data may or may not be multisession, the data cannot be erase once its been written on). , a CD-RW is a CD drive that can record or write data to a CD(the data may or may not be multisession, the data can be erase or written over).
Audio CDs can be played by CD players and radios. The music CDs of your favorite artists that you buy are audio CDs, and they have nothing on them except audio signal. Data CD is a CD that can contain different types of data such as photos, videos, mp3 files, text files, etc. Data CDs are normally usable only on computers. However, there are radios and DVD-players that can scan through a data CD and find files that can be played on that particular player (for example, mp3 files).
They shouldn't if they don't contain viruses or such. That's if you're running the data on the CD, but it's unlikely the CD will physically harm your PC.
You cannot change the data format once it has been written to the CD. You will need to write another CD with the data in music format to play in a CD player.