What is the difference between Format, Erase, and Quick Erase?
For Mac OS users, formatting and erasing are much the same thing for CD-RW and generally refer to the process of erasing a CD-RW and returning the entire disc to its native crystalline phase, thus removing all data. Quick Erase erases only the directory information on a disc, leaving other data sectors alone. By erasing that directory, however, all data becomes inaccessible. (For Windows users, “formatting” often refers to formatting a CD-RW disc as a UDF volume.
