[Wol]

I thought to use a DVD -RW to make temporary DVDs of TV programs to play on my DVD player/TV.

Having made one I went to erase it so as to use the disc again - but neither my computer nor the burning software (RecordNow) will recognise the disc and the program won't erase the old files.

Is there a way of (a) seeing the files and (b) erasing the disc so as to re-use it?

WXP SP3, 3.2GHz, 2.5 GB RAM using VideoReDo for editing, TMPGEnc DVD Author2 and, attempting to erase the old contents, RecordNow.

TIA

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Howdy:

Both CD-RW's and DVD-RW's need to be formatted PRIOR to the first use otherwise, they are nothing more than simple CD/DVD-r"s.

So, if you recorded something on the DVD before you formatted it, that DVD is now just a plain old DVD-R.

Murray

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

Both CD-RW's and DVD-RW's need to be formatted PRIOR to the first use otherwise, they are nothing more than simple CD/DVD-r"s.

So, if you recorded something on the DVD before you formatted it, that DVD is now just a plain old DVD-R.

Murray

[Wol]

Howdy:

Both CD-RW's and DVD-RW's need to be formatted PRIOR to the first use otherwise, they are nothing more than simple CD/DVD-r"s.

So, if you recorded something on the DVD before you formatted it, that DVD is now just a plain old DVD-R.

Murray

Thank you very much for that - I didn't know it.

I have used DVD -RWs for years as rotating back-ups for data, with three being usesd successively in turn. I place the data on them with RecordNow, and have never had a problem with re-recording so I would have to assume that RecordNow does this formatting before it burns? And that my DVD authoring program doesn't so, as you say, converts the RWs into plain vanilla?

I will try taking one of my data backups out of service and putting some Video TS folders onto it.

Thanks again.

[Wol]

Well, it worked as advertised!

I took a new DVD-RW and put some data files on it using Sonic RecordNow, then erased them and authored a .mpeg into DVD format on it. I then erased that and put another on, and it worked.

Only one question: if I put a new and unused DVD-RW into my drive and selected "Erase" on RecordNow, would the DVD become formatted?