CD-RW Drive

Sorry I know this is not Classic Computer material, I am hopeing someone will respond to my question privately.. My goal is to archive my old DOS & CP/M (In DOS readable format) for future use.. I just purchased an Acer CDROM Read/Writable drive.. I have wasted numerous CD-R's trying to write files to it.. I can get the cd drive to burn the CD & read from it, however it will not read on another standard CD drive. I am now using a CD-RW disk while trying to resolve this problem so not to waist the CD-R's, however again it will format the CD write that data to it, and read fine on the CD-RW Drive fine, but will not read back on a standard CD drive.. I am using Adaptec Easy CD Creator and Adaptec Direct CD software.. Can anyone help me on this problem.. Thanks.. Phil...