Posted by Stuart Miller on 12/13/06 20:27

<robinjoan@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>I am not burning anything to these 7 disks, I am using Roxio drag to
> disc to put files and programs on the disks. I do not finalize the
> disks as they are rewritables. I should be able to write to these
> disks, and delete anything on them. For some reason, I can not
> "WRITE" to the disks. These disks were fine up until 4 days ago. I
> have been writing to them for over a year. When I get a new file or
> program, I add that file or program to one of these disks. Because
> they are DVD disks, they hold an enormous amount of data. I would
> still like to add and delete to these disks. Something got into my
> machine, which caused this problem. I am trying to find out how to
> rectify the situation, and make these disks writable.
> Thank you for your help.
> Bob K.
>
>
In the future, I wou ld advise against using 'drag and drop'. This is a
packet writing technology, which generally does not work very well. It takes
a bunch of computer resources, and does a whole lot ( how's that for
technical talk? ) or writing and rewriting just to add a little bit of
additional data. I woud think that the 'index' areas of you dvd would wear
out quite quickly.

I have found it is much more efficient and reliable to set up the data to be
backed up in one folder, then burn a dvd-rw start to finish. When you no
longer need that backup, do a complete erase. For small amounts of data, use
a cd-rw or flash drive

DVD-RW was never intended to be a substitute for a hard drive, as they have
a very limited lifespan.

Stuart







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> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:55:21 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Citizen Bob) wrote:
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>>On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:00:59 -0500, Rick Merrill
>><rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> it is a DVD recorder for my computer, I am
>>>> using these disks for backup, I have most of my files and programs
>>>> backed up on 7 disks. They are DVD+RW disks.
>>
>>>> don't understand what you mean by "video mode"
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>>That's a term for the DVD file structure: VIDEO_TS, VOBs, etc.
>>
>>You are using Data mode which is like a regular storage disk.
>>
>>>What OS are you running?
>>
>>If the OP burned a closed session, then it is not possible to add more
>>content to the disc.

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