Posted by Stuart Miller on 12/01/07 03:59

"Paul Heslop" <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> root wrote:
>
>> Did you "finalize" the disk after recording? If so, you might have
>> to "un-finalize" it before you can either erase or re-record on it.
>
> If I am right a +RW doesn't need to be finalized, unlike the -RW
>
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Generally, the 'finalize' option is to write some index material to allow
non-recorder type dvd players to read the files.
I have found that the computer will read un finalized dvd-rw's just fine

My dvd recorder will accept new blank dvd-rw's, but will write some index
material before it will record. I have to allow a few minutes before the
show starts for the machine to prepare the dvd. It will properly erase and
re-use dvd's it has recorded, or ones recorded on the computer.

For whatever reasons, some dvd recorders, like mine, will only record to
dvd+rw, yet others, like my daughters, will record on both.

Look around in the menu functions, there should be erase options there.

Stuart

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