Posted by Bruce Tyler on 12/24/65 11:28

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?
>
>Happy to provide any other details that might help isolate the
>problem.

Had similar problem with DvD+RW...

I was writing to a +RW disc in this very laptop when I got a write
error. The DvD simply did not finsh writing and I ejected it. I put
the disc back in and it gave an error upon loading so I put it aside
and tried another. The same thing happened. At first I thought it was
Nero 6613 (I was using at the time - and still do) which was at
fault. I quit the program and left it until I got home and tried the
same thing on my desktop PC, using the same version of Nero. This time
it worked, BUT , I had used another, previously unused +RW and all
worked perfectly. I then put in one of the failed write discs and it
failed to write again. Now this had me scratching my head. Both of the
failed write discs, failed to load. They also failed to format in
Nero. I tried a handful of other programs to format but all failed,
giving write error and a host of other "failure" messages. I put these
+RW's aside and tried another on the laptop. Now I had three stuffed
+RW's...

Hmmmmm...!!!

About 3 weeks later ( a month ago) I bought a Sony RDR-HX910 DvD
recorder and I decided to try one of these +RW's. If that failed I was
going to throw them out. I inserted and up came the message "Unkown
Disc" so I formatted it manually. It appeared to work. Ahah... I then
recorded a movie to one of them and yes, it copied. I then took it out
and put in into my PC DvD drive and tried to play the movie. It failed
to see any movie. I then put it into my Panasonic DvD player and it
gave disc load failure. I then put it back into the Sony HX910 and
tried to play it and it too gave a failure...

Those 3 +RW's are now in the rubbish bin....

BUT... What caused the original failure... It was on" this" laptop.
The DvD burner burner has failed. It does not work any more. The
yellow burn LED is always on and it wont read or write any DvD or CD,
so it is knackered....

I have bought hundreds of RW's, both +RW and -RW and many +/-R's too
and one or two which fall by the wayside are not going to bother me,
so any failures will get tossed out straight away...

[Back to original message]