maybe I'm not understanding the question.. I've heard it said before, that you can not write to a cd-r more than once. but I do all the time, I never use cdrw's, I only use cdr's. I just leave the disk open, I can't read from the disk from any other drive till I close the disk, but as long as I leave it open, I can delete from the cdr and write more to it at a later time. I never understood, why I am able to do this, yet everyone says it's not possible. if I misunderstood the question, just ignore me :o)