Retired

"Retired" <retired@my.hom> wrote in message
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> "LG" <nowhere@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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>> Retired wrote:
>>> You don't need to format a CD or DVD disk. Are you sure you have a
>>> burner?
>>
>> Wow....where have you been. LOL
>>
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> Where have I been? I've been building computers for 2 decades. Up to now
> I've never had to format a CD-ROM or a DVD disk. If I want to copy a set
> of files to a CD or DVD disk, I just copy them. Do it all the time -
> without ever going through any formatting process.
>

I should add that it's called "burning a disk", which is not exactly the
same as formatting - which you can't do with DVDs and CD-ROMs.