It’s a well-known fact that any confidential data can be erased from the hard-drive using loads of software specifically built for that. But what about the data stored on a CD or a DVD? Throwing them ...

Horror Story No. 37: The co-worker came into our office with a distraught look on his face. “I thought I had another disc, which I didn’t need, in my disc drive when I typed ERASE . . . ,” he said. As ...

Back in August of last year, I wrote about QuickErase, a utility that makes it easy to erase rewriteable discs. (As their names imply, rewriteable discs—a.k.a., CD-RW and DVD-RW discs—can be reused, ...

I used Roxio (grrr) to make this disc and now I want to erase it but Windows complains that it's read-only. The research I've done suggests that the disc got finalized by the software, but I can't ...

If you don’t wish to pay some money for paid burning software, you may want to check out BurnAware. BurnAware Free is one of the most popular free CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc burning software available ...

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4 Disc Creator has less in common with the latest Roxio and Nero releases (which began life as disc-mastering apps) and more with Sonic Solutions' MyDVD product line. Both the ...