# questions about CD's/CD burners...

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## Post 1 by Katie (Zone BBS Addict) on Friday, 28-Jan-2005 16:26:44

Hi everyone: Here's the situation I am facing. I have an HP notebook. It has a CD-DVD drive. However, I want to purchase an external CD burner. A couple
of questions: 1. What kind of burner should I get? I want to be able to burn audio CD's as well as text to CD 2. What program (s) will work with this using
jaws 5.1 with windows XP Pro? 3. What kind (s) of CD's should I buy? I think these are all my questions, at least for now! If anyone could help with this,
it would be greatly appreciated!!!
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## Post 2 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Friday, 28-Jan-2005 16:50:37

Katie
Why do you want an external burner, they are usually mor expensive than the built in ones, just a thought.
Well, as for your questions, any burner that support USB 2.0 is good (and I bet you all of them do). HP are good but way way over priced, I had an external Pioneer burner that was good and fairly cheap. As for CDs you can use any type of CDs use the cheapest brand, there is no difference, trust me, for DVDs make sure the DVdD+ and DVD- formats are supported, especially dvd+, you could do without dvd- if you need to (they are just different formats, don't worry about what they mean, dvd+ is more widely accepted). As for software, that's a bit trickier, I've used Nero 6.0 and it's pretty good, it's not out of the box the most accessible thing I've seen but it's usable, there are also scripts for Easy CD Creator, go on www.jfwlite.com and look at applications they have scripts for, I'd go with one that has scripts with it. Do not go with CD Maker Pro or any other NTI product (NTI is a company) they are not accessible and they could not care less about it.
Good luck
Cheers
-B

## Post 3 by Katie (Zone BBS Addict) on Friday, 28-Jan-2005 20:26:29

the reason I want an external burner is because my computer doesn't have one.