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Posted by BillyBob on 10/01/05 14:29
"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:433d2e2b.55226953@news-server.houston.rr.com...
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:22:20 +0100, Paul Hyett
> <pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >>The first one formatted and recorded properly, but the next one did
> >>not. The DVDR claimed it had set it up correctly, but it failed to
> >>record two shows, which I ended up missing as a result.
>
> >All the blank DVD's I've bought have been pre-formatted.
>
> Maybe that's why the Maxells did not work and the Imations did.
>
> Both had the same MID ("Philips 041") so the discs were presumably the
> same. The only difference may be that they were pre-formatted by
> different companies.
>
> I had the same thing happen many years ago with a box of Sony 1.2MB
> floppy discs which were supposed to be pre-formatted. They did not
> work so I re-formatted them and they still didn't work. The entire box
> was bad so either they used complete junk, which is unlikely, or their
> pre-formatting procedure screwed them up. And since you can't
> low-level format a floppy, they were worthless because of the bad
> pre-format.
>
> I wonder if you can low-level format a DVD disc.
No - DVD-R media is not preformatted if you "preformatted" it then you would
not be able to write data as it is a write once media.
BB
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