Posted by RS on 12/24/39 11:28

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> Maureen Goldman <inkslinger@FOGsunshine.net> 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'.
>>
>>Possibly the previous burn was never concluded properly. Try adding on
>>a small additional file as though this were a multisession disk.
>>Likely won't work, but hey...
>>
>
>
> Thanks Maureen. Could you amplify a bit, as I'm not really clear about
> this multi-session stuff. If I burn with Nero Express, it will
> presumably try to *replace* whatever is on the DVD-RW with the new
> source material? And that's what I would normally want to do with a
> DVD-RW, yes? So, how would I attempt to *Add* instead of Replace
> please?
>

To play a disk on another computer, you have to typically 'finalize' it.
But if your going to use it just on your computer, you can do multi
session, which means you can put some data on, then decide later to put
some more on without having to erase what's already there.

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