Can't format my Memorex DVD's

[Canoe164]

Hey all,

Early on when I was trying out this new hobby, I somehow caused two DVD+RW's to no longer be recognized by NERO in order to reformat. Any suggestions other than using them as new and bright targets? I already have plenty of those with from AOL.

[asisoft]

I had similar bad experience before with Verbatim DataLife Plus +RW, which has the same Media ID CMC as Memorex. The disc was brand new and I burnt it once then the disc became permantly dead and could not reformated by all the software (Nero, CopyToDVD, DVDInfoPro, RecordNow) I had tried.

Then I switched to Mitsubishi (MCC) +RW and everything works fine then.

[Canoe164]

Thanks asisoft,

Stubborn problem though. How is the media un-recognizable all of a sudden? The header (DOS) is just gone?

[presto]

I have a DVDRW like that too. I resurfaced it several times with no improvement. I wonder if it has to do with packet writing software. I think I used it in the past and then removed it. Do you think you might have formatted it to use with InCD and then uninstalled InCD?

[tompika]

Stubborn problem though. How is the media un-recognizable all of a sudden? The header (DOS) is just gone?

Two weeks ago I had a power-cut during writing the Lead-In to a new DVD+RW.
I tried every software but basically the disc was no longer recognizable by the drive, it was blinking and/or reported not ready.
A couple of days later I tried DVD Decrypter's Erase function (right-click on the drive). The drive was not blinking but Decrypter said the drive did not report ready. Whatever I just clicked quick erase. I was asked if I wanted to stop the operation then clicked yes. It said couldn't cancel and woila it started quick formatting and the disc become usable.

This "blind erase" helped me out, hope it will work for you too

[Canoe164]

Presto: I don't really know what I may have done to these discs, but I
haven't used InCD so that isn't it.

Tompika: I will give DVDDecryper a try and see what happens.


Thanks to you both.

[asisoft]

Presto, thanks for the tip. However I followed your steps but my DW remains dead, Decryter simply cannot detect the media present.

[tompika]

I just made another "corrupted" DVD+RW work. The Lead-in was screwed up.

DVD Decrypter said it "couldn't recover TOC".
Right clicked on drive, selected FULL ERASE instead of quick erase!
Got an error message. I chose "cancel". The drive started erasing!
After 30 seconds the operation successfully completed.
BUT it actually continued the full eraseing even after closing DVD Decrypter. I disconnected and turned the drive (external) off.

The disc became perfectly usable