Do I have to format a cd-rw? If so how? cause I can't

[baker]

I have had a singal cd-rw foir testing for about 2 years now and it just died on me so I bought a new one.
Big suprise! Nero can't write to it. Then I think ok, it must need to be formatted.

But how can I format it? All I have is nero and it won't recognise it.

PLease help

Baker

[snowmoon]

You could try VCDeasy under tools/cdrdao their is a Erase CD-RW option.

[mdm]

CD-RWs don't need to be formatted. Try to erase it (with more than one program) - if that doesn't work, maybe the disc is bad.

[baker]

Nope, my cd rec drive wont even recognise it, it just goes mad and says its an unknown format or something.

So is it a bad disk? That means I have to leave it back

Baker

[mdm]

If you can't read the disk at all (i.e., in Nero do a "Medium-Info"), than the disc is likely bad.

Once question though, did you happen to buy a high-speed RW disc and are trying to use it in a non-HS drive? I'm fairly sure older RW drives have problems with the HS discs.

[bunyip]

This may be considered obvious so ignore it if it is, but CD-RW disks need periodic full erasures - you can't write to them forever without it.

You original disk may just need a full (not quick) erasure to clear it. Have you tried this?

[baker]

@mdm
Nope its a 4x just like my drive.

However its an 80 min disk. My drive will record 80 min cd-r media but i don't know about 80 min cd-rw.

Thanks so fr guys

Baker