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CorsariMac · Member Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Location: United States

I've checked several places on this forum and can't find what I'm looking for so please accept my apology up front if I missed it:

I'm recording on a DVD-R using DVD+RW and I've reused the disks quite extensively since Christmas. The disks are starting to skip and/or pause. I was told I needed to reformat them but saw something here that says you can't do that - only erase. My DVD-R is erasing them, they're showing 100% free.

Does anyone know why the disks aren't recording cleanly anymore?...and what I can or need to do to clean them up? I was told disks should last for 10 years with no degradation, is that true?

I average about 3 disks a week and I have 6 disks so I"m reusing them every 2 weeks and I keep both the disks and the recorder clean.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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ntscuser · Mimzy Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: United Kingdom

Any chance of making this a sticky?

"The latest DVD title cannot be backed up. The software I've been using for years says it has 1500GB of data on it so it must have some new form of encryption which can never be broken".

Answer: Download the latest version of DVDFab HD Decrypter