You can recover files to a CD-RW (or DVD-RW, DVD+RW). It must be a CD-RW, it will not work with a CD-R. To a CD-RW any application can save data to (like if you choose "Save" in your word processor) and Recover4all will be no exception. The CD-RW must be UDF formatted and a UDF driver must already be installed. This sounds complicated, but usually everything is already set up and you just need to put an empty CD-RW into your CD writer and choose the drive letter of the CD writer when Recover4all asks for the destination drive.