creating format - CD-Rom-XA vs CD-R

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Phil Schuman wrote: I have an HP writer and use Easy CD creator - All the CD's I create seem to be in a format called CD-ROM-XA - using single track or multi-track - Also, I can use the Adaptec Direct-CD software to make the CD appear as a drive letter, and just bring files over to it - and then burn at the end. I friend gave me a CD with some photos on it, and after resizing and editing them, I wanted to put them back on the CD - but could not - It said it was a CD-R and could not be re-opened - It was not "closed" as my diag software said it was "appendable" - so - what software writes in the CD-R format vs the CD-ROM-XA format that seems to be used by Adaptec Easy-CD Creator and Direct-CD

What versions of Easy CD CreMator (*) and Windows?

Is the cd-r that's supposedly could not be re-opened formatted with
DirectCD? (Is this what you mean by "CD-R format"?)


(*) Easy CD CreMator - Brian O, Ray Kostanty, Joel