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by peetree

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I received a CD that was written to and I don't have a CD-R drive. I know there is a program, which allows you to read a burned data CD-R in a regular CD-ROM drive.

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by johngreer

What error are you getting. Assuming it was closed/burned correctly, you should be able to read it in a normal CD drive.

by thechas

You should be able to read a CD-R disk on most CD drives.

Some older drives (12X or less) cannot read high density CDs of ANY kind. Their lasers and tracking systems can only handle the standard track spacing for 650MB CDs.

For some older drives, you need to close the CD, and not just the session.

For CD-RW disks, if you have a drive that will read them (most 24X or faster drives).
You can install reader software for the format used.

Adaptec split off it's CD-RW software to www.roxio.com
You can download the reader software for CD-RW disks create with Direct CD.

If the CD-RW was created with nero In-CD, you should install the reader from Ahead software.
www.nero.com

Chas

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