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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1843044" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>@krs, that is normally true, but I have also seen CDs that were improperly closed when written show up as "uninitialized" when mounted. And you are correct that a commercially made CD should not have that problem. Initializing a CD is similar to formatting a drive in that it makes the disk writeable. But when writing a CD, whether re-writeable or not, if the disk isn't properly finalized, it won't be readable. Reinitialzing doesn't else files, it makes them unreadable. The impact is the same, but reinitialization loses that space previously written to the drive unless the CD is rewritable. Not many are.</p></blockquote><p></p>