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May 31st, 2004 15:00

DVD+RW Drive

I never owned a DVD+RW drive before and I'm wondering if the DVD+RW drive in the Home Office Dimension XPS package has CD-RW capabilities as well? I looked at this page:

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/learnmore/learnmore.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&~id=optical_dimen&~line=desktops&~lt=popup&~series=dimen&ref=CFG

I could see details on the "DVD+RW/+R with CD-RW Drive", but is that the same thing as the one displayed for the XPS? I'm asking 'cause it doesn't say "DVD+RW/+R with CD-RW Drive". It just says "DVD+RW Drive". There doesn't seem to be details on that though.. just the "DVD+RW/+R with CD-RW Drive". So, I'm assuming that's the same thing?

May 31st, 2004 16:00

Can't access the link? Well, this is the particular text I'm referring to on that page:

DVD+RW/+R with CD-RW Drive

The perfect All-in-One combination! Read CD or DVD media, write DVD+RW, DVD+R media or CD media! This drive offers leading edge optical capability,and includes both Sonic MyDVD for digital content authoring and Roxio Direct CD for CD and DVD data burning.

But I think you helped me on this already. Thanks.

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May 31st, 2004 16:00




Hi The Alien,

I could not access your link, however all DVD burners will write to CD-R & CD-RW media. The DVD media, (excluding DVD-RAM)comes in two formats "+R /RW" and "-R /RW".
Currently Dell is factory installing only single format drives that support "+" media.

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CD/RW Link

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May 31st, 2004 22:00

At the bottom of the link it spells out exactly the media the drive will write to.

May 31st, 2004 22:00

"At the bottom of the link it spells out exactly the media the drive will write to."

That wasn't part of my problem.

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August 15th, 2004 00:00

I couldn't find anything closer than this post to answer my question...mostly because I'm just too tired to look anymore...sorry about that. But, if I put a CD in the DVD drive (read only), can I burn a copy of data files from the DVD to the CD/RW? And, If I have a data file on a CD, how can I copy them to my hard drive? Sonic doesn't seem to want to recognize the data file, and there doesn't seem to be a way of copying from the disk to the hard drive in that program. Am I doing something wrong, or is Sonic not set up for this operation? I have several disks of information using NTI to burn the data files from my old PC that I want to copy to the new PC. Thanks in advance for any help. Paul
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