Posted by AnthonyR on 10/03/05 17:50

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Otter <Otter@nada.net> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:06:44 +0100, Terry Pinnell
>><terrypin@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I have a DVD-RW on which there was a playable DVD I'd recorded. Today
>>>I tried to re-use it but cannot erase the existing contents. Using
>>>Nero Express I get just the unhelpful message 'Write Error'.
>>>
>>>How can I proceed please?
>>
>>toss it and pick up a new one. They're not that expensive. I mean is
>>it worth spending several days trying to erase a $3 disc that fails
>>every time you try?
>>
>>-Otter
>
> I have, of course, used another DVD-RW to record my DVD. But I hate
> unsolved puzzles <g>. Also, who knows, maybe this is a symptom of some
> underlying problem?
>
> --
> Terry, West Sussex, UK

Hey Terry,
If you got another one to work and were able to erase that one, then all is
ok with your software and system. Just a bad disc.
Sort of how HD develop bad sectors but the software can isolate them and
continue to use them, probably the disc had a
problem in manufacturing that didn't show up till now, or maybe it got
scratched?
Or bent or some other trauma that left it unreadable.
The surface scan with ISO buster sounded like a good idea, anything show up?
AnthonyR.

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