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Thread ID: 78891 2007-05-01 17:44:00 DVD+RW! Problem! Naruto28 (7236) Press F1
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546060 2007-05-01 17:44:00 Hi,

I get a brand new DVD+RW (which I dont usually use) and burn some stuff onto it with 'Data Disc'. Now, I try to format, so I can put new stuff on. But it says that my disc is corrupted for some reason.

Why is this?!

Is there something I need to know about DVD+RW?

Here is the error I get:

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Btw, the disc brand is Tuff Disc

Thanks 		Naruto28 (7236)
546061 2007-05-01 19:06:00 I can only make one suggestion.

Try the same test on a known brand like Verbatim for example, and leave NONAME disks strictly alone. The may be very good or they may be shockers. The problem is that you dont know. 		Tony.br (4018)
546062 2007-05-01 19:39:00 ..or save yourself the headaches and leave *+/-rw alone, stick with just *+/-r Myth (110)
546063 2007-05-01 20:27:00 What software are you using to try and format the disc?
I don't think Windows XP supports formating of RW discs and you need to have something like Nero or Sonic to do this. 		CYaBro (73)
546064 2007-05-01 21:05:00 Can you actually format a disc? Optical media isn't like a hard drive or other storage media .

Have you tried, erasing the disc using a program like Nero and then try re-writing to the disc .

I use TDK RW discs all the time, whilst I've never FORMATTED a DVD/RW disc, I haven't had any problems with erasing the disc and thenre-writing to it .

Cheers 		chiefnz (545)
546065 2007-05-01 22:26:00 DVD+RW do need formatting 1st time they are used. PaulD (232)
546066 2007-05-02 02:24:00 DVD+RW do need formatting 1st time they are used.

I've used them extensively and have never needed to format them before use out of the box. Closest I've come is Nero telling me to erase the disc before burning more/new data to it. Unless of course the formatting of the disk is done within the erasure process.

Cheers 		chiefnz (545)
546067 2007-05-02 05:19:00 I personnaly only use +/- rw disks as if they were normal +/- r disks and then erase them when I want to change the contents. If you've done it this way perhaps the disk needs to be finalised? You can use multi-session to allow files to be added later if required.

However there is the packet writing method which lets you use the disks like a hard drive from within windows and requires formatting before use. Nero and Roxio have their own versions of this and they are not compatible.
Having been stung horribly in the past I stay right away from this but it must work or they wouldn't supply it. ( putting the nero InCD software on my machine after previously having the Roxio one on killed windows completely with a .vxd merge error that prevented booting )

When I install Nero I always choose custom and leave out InCD and nero media player etc and just choose the programs I actually use.

If you have nero there's a tools directory with a scandisk utility which may be able to tell you whether the data is actually corrupted or not 		dugimodo (138)
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