On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 12:21 AM, Leigh Seaver wrote:
Any idea on how many times a CD-RW can be rewritten?Not sure. Just keep using them until they break.... ;) I would imagine they would break by either not formatting any longer, or slowly loose MBs until it's dead. I've lost count the number of times I've rewritten mine.
When rewritten, does some of the previous data remain and can be recovered by a disk recovery utility?
Depends on how it's erased. OS X Disk Utility had two erase options. One is "Quick" and the other is "Complete." I imagine that the Quick version is like doing a quick format on a HD where it only erases the drive's directory. In this case, data could be recovered (in theory), but probably only by a place like Drive Savers.
Thanks,
Glenn
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