A rewriting problem

[humdinger]

Ive been successfully burning VCDs and its variants for over a year now with nero, with no problems. But now for some reason, after burning a VCD clip to CDrw, my computer wont recognise the disc, so i cant wipe it. It plays as a VCD fine on my DVD player, but when in my CDrw or DVD drive, my pc fails to see it. I've tried it under 98SE, win2k and even BeOS, but the computer just says the drive is empty. It will still read other CDrw with VCDs burned on them, just not this one, which is the only one I can spare to burn something on at the mo.... any1 have any suggestions?

[humdinger]

sefy, anyone??

[Sefy]

Have you tried checking that on another PC ? just to eliminate the problem is not your PC, but the disc itself.

[humdinger]

yup, ive tried it on the cdrw at work, same problem

[Sefy]

Hmm.. how many times have you recorded on the media ? have you tried to format it fully and not just quick erase ?

[humdinger]

i dont know, i guess about 100 times or so, i've had it 2 years. i cant try any type of erase, because the drive fails to see any disc in there at all, it just comes up with 'please insert disc' or similar (i cant tell right now, as i'm not at home)

[Sefy]

Hmm... well, I don't think you passed the limit, cause last I recall that's supposed to be 999 times, do you have maybe an access to another CDRW drive ? maybe another one will be able to reformat the media.

[humdinger]

thanks for the help. i've tried it on 2 sofar, i guess i'll try it on anutha one if i can find one, but otherwise its headed for the bin

[Sefy]

Which media is it ? i've bought 10 Datastream 80min RW discs and god knows they went through hell, and still working good, on 3 of them i've already passed 100 times recording and erasing, so I know that a CDRW should be capable of it.

[humdinger]

its a yamaha 74 min CDRW which came with my CD burner

[Sefy]

Well, I suppose you could email a complaint to Yamaha, they might send you a replacement.