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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Erasing a Read/Write (RW) Disc

If you're going to store data on non-rewritable discs or on a blank rewriteable disc, you can skip this section. However, if you're going to store data on a rewriteable disc that already has files stored on it, you must erase the disc first.

Here's how to erase a rewriteable (RW) disc that already has data stored on it:

  1. Insert a rewriteable CD-RW or DVD-RW in your Macintosh.

  2. Start the Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder.

  3. Click the CD or DVD drive in the left pane of the Disk Utility window.

  4. Click the Erase tab near the top of the Disk Utility window, as shown in Figure 25-3.

    To erase a rewriteable disc, you must first select the disc drive.

    Figure 25-3. To erase a rewriteable ...

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