How to Erase Disc for Recycling

The Disc Eraser is an easy-to-use and practical tool to erase DVD-RW or CD-RW media to dispose of your unwanted or confidential data from the disk. The complete surface of the disc is over-written with a neutral pattern. The result is that all data is now cleared forever. It is 100% safe and secure. Download and install this Free CD DVD Burner Platinum and follow the step-by-step tutorial to finish your disc erasing.

What is CD-RW?

CD-RW (for compact disc, rewriteable) is a compact disc (CD) format that allows repeated recording on a disc. The CD-RW format was introduced by Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi, Philips, Ricoh, and Sony, in a 1997 supplement to Philips and Sony's Orange Book. CD-RW is Orange Book III (CD-MO was I, while CD-R was II). Prior to the release of the Orange Book, CDs had been read-only audio (CD-Digital Audio, described fully in the Red Book), to be played in CD players, and multimedia (CD-ROM), to be played in computers' CD-ROM drives. After the Orange Book, any user with a CD Recorder drive could create their own CDs from their desktop computers. CD-RW drives can write both CD-R and CD-RW discs and can read any type of CD. The ideal usage field of CD-RW is in the creation of test disks, temporary short or mid-term backups, and in general, where an intermediate solution between online and offline storage schemes is required.

As easy as brewing a coffee!

1. Launch Free CD DVD Burner Platinum. Then, insert a used CD to the disk drive, click the "More Tools" and choose "Disc Eraser" to run the eraser wizard.

2. The eraser scans your system for the available devices. Choose one of the usable drives from the list to erase disc (the system will select it by default if there is only one).

3. Select one of the erasing types from fast erase (only TOC will be erased) and full erase (whole disc will be erased). The fast erase, used widely in most situations, will save more time than the full erase. Then, choose the suitable erasing speed and click "Next" to start erasing. The disc erasing will be finished when the process bar reaches 100%.