I will just mention that I just bought a really good book called "CD and DVD for Dummies" or something like that. It has a lot of really good information. If you can find it, buy yourself a Christmas present! Remember when we used to buy a computer and get a load of manuals to tell us how to run all the wonderful software we were getting? Now we don't even get a list of software already installed, and what it does. You don't know whether you can delete some of the stuff you don't use, or whether doing so will completely wreck your computer. Anyway, I vote for the formatting where any computer can read the CD. Adaptec apparently puts a rudimentary program on the CD so that anyone you give the CD to can install the program and run the CD. Pretty useful.