Posted by Terry Pinnell on 10/03/05 08:09

spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:

>On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:04:12 +0100, Terry Pinnell
><terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.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?
>
>It does not surprise me that Nero brainfarted when asked to erase a
>DVD +/-RW.
>
>I gave up and used DVD Decrypter (100% free) when it happened to me.
>Use the "full-erase" utility and clean that sucker completely.
>
Thanks, have duly downloaded, installed and run DVD Decrypter. It
looks a handy program anyway, but unfortunately doesn't seem to have
fixed this problem ;-(

Presumably I'm using it correctly? I load the DVD-RW, then in DVD
Decrypter ensure that drive is selected, and use Tools > Drive > Erase
Disc > Full. Then I choose DVD-RW, and click OK. (Why is 'Destination:
Please select a folder...' displayed? I have no output in this case,
so I've ignored that.)

I then get these messages:
'Erase' (then shows 0% for a while); then 'Initialising' shortly
after, followed by 'Disc is Empty'. All of that in under a minute.

If I then repeat the attempt to Erase Disc in Nero Express, I get the
same as before: it runs through, apparently erasing to 100%, then
gives 'Write Error'.

If I try to write a data file to it with Nero Express, I get
'There is not enough space to burn the compilation onto this disc.'
This on a so-called 'empty' disc!

Any further advice from anyone would be appreciated please.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

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