Posted by Frank on 12/24/60 11:28

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 09:59:25 +1300, in 'rec.video.desktop',
in article <Re: Cannot erase DVD-RW>,
Bruce Tyler <top@bottom.au> 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?
>>
>>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...


I hope that Terry reads this, because it may just be what's happening
to him, although I'd still like to see the results of an IsoBuster
Surface Scan.

I would also suggest to Terry that he disable any active anti-virus
software that may be running in the background on his system, at least
when he's burning DVDs. He can always re-enable it when he's done
burning. This is in addition to the recommendation that I made
previously with regard to disabling of InCD at system startup,
assuming that he's not doing any packet writing.

I'm also, based upon his latest posts, wondering whether he's burning
his DVD-RW discs in DVD-ROM (data) format or DVD-Video format.

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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