Pick the appropriate disc and format for your needs


Find an example in the following table that best describes your situation. Then, insert the recommended disc, and choose the appropriate disc format when you prepare your disc for burning.

The type of recordable disc you should choose depends on a few different factors, such as:

The types of recordable discs that work with your disc burner.

The disc drive on the computer or device that you plan to use the disc in after it's burned and the types of recordable discs the computer or device can read.

The total size for all the files you plan to burn to a disc.

A typical recordable CD can hold about 650-700 megabytes (MB), whereas a typical recordable DVD can hold over six times more than that at about 4.7 gigabytes (GB). However, the total amount of disc space that you can use to burn files to the disc is less than the amount that's often listed on the disc itself. This is because the disc capacity is calculated differently when it's used in a computer. For example, a typical DVD-R that has a listed disc capacity of 4.7 GB can only store about 4.37 GB of data on the disc.


The following table describes different CD or DVD burning scenarios and provides advice about which format to use.

To
 Use this

Burn any kind of file and use the disc in a Windows XP or later computer.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or DVD-RAM

Format:? Live File System

Burn any kind of file and use the disc in any computer, including versions of Windows earlier than Windows XP.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or DVD-RAM

Format: Mastered

Burn any kind of file and use the disc in a Windows Vista or later computer.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, or BD-RE

Format:? Live File System or Mastered

Burn music or pictures and use the disc in regular CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc players that can play MP3 files and digital pictures.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW

Format: Mastered

Burn music or pictures and use the disc in any computer, including versions of Windows earlier than Windows XP.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW

Format: Mastered

Be able to add and erase one file or many files over and over (like you can with a USB flash drive) and use the disc in a Windows XP or later computer.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or DVD-RAM

Format: Live File System

Be able to add and erase one file or many files over and over (like you can with a USB flash drive) and use the disc in a Windows 7 computer.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, or BD-RE

Format: Live File System

Leave a disc in your computer’s burner and copy files to it at your convenience, such as for routine backup.
 Disc: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, or BD-RE

Format: Live File System

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