DVD destroying RW media

[wernerb]

Recently my LG DVD 4167B writer has started leaving visible rings when trying to write to RW media. Normal media works find, both CD & DVD non-RW media is fine...Is there a different process at work when burning RW vs non-RW media?? Is the drive trashed??

Thanks.

Bill

[[_chef_]]

WHO says that drive would "destry" your media??

This is only your impression, and its faulty.

If you have trouble with one media, use another brand/type.

[Krispy Kritter]

Rings as in scratches or just visibly different colors (lighter/darker) of the media on the recordable side of the disc? If they are scratches, it is a hardware problem and would likely be happening with all media. It you are just seeing the "rings" on the media side of the disc, you are only seeing where data has been burned onto the disc. Which is usually unnoticable on a disc that is full, but pretty obvious on discs with smaller amounts of data. You should see similar "rings" on other recordable media, but it is more obvious on DVD-RW media.

[hech54]

If the RW's play/are readable in your computer.....they are not damaged and your dive is not "trashed".