How many times can you re-write CD-RW disks?

[kabanero]

Hi everybody,

Strange thing happenned to my two Sony CD-RW disks. I cannot erase them any more. So, I was wondering how many times can you write to CD-RW disks.

Thanks.

[Pompebled]

As I recall from reading in a PC-magazine, you can put a CD-RW 1,000 times in a CD-burner. Everytime a small part of the contentstable is beeing use (that can't be erased) and after 1,000 times space is just up ...

[kabanero]

I re-wrote to them only 6-7 times. Well, it's bad.

[kingsley]

what drive do you have? I have got two 74mins sony's they have been burned 100's of times still ok but I've had two cheaper 80min one's and they have gone werd after about 9 times,and the burner won't reconize them anymore.My new burner is a Liteon 1210b1

[kabanero]

I have Sony CRX-160A CD-RW (12x8x32).

[MrEvil]

What kind of burner do you have? I have a Yamaha, and out of all of the CDRW's I have tried I can't get them to burn more than two or three times. After two or three times it won't recognize them or won't erase them anymore. Have tried about four different brands but still have the same problem.

[dvbr]

Hi,

I use Imation and no name CDRWs, I'm not counting but, the Imation was erased about 30 times and it's Ok, the noname 5 times and still working. My drive is a LG8080.

[vcdfreak]

Are you guys using Nero (Erase Re-Writable) to erase your CDRW? I find that sometimes Nero can still erase my CDRW although Easy CD Creator can no longer recognize the disk.

[MrEvil]

After using it 2 or 3 times it wont work in any program? Its got me, just tonight it happened. I rewrote to a Memorex CD-RW two times, then it was dead just like all the others.

[buzzinhornets]

when you say the cdrw doesn't recognize the cdrw, does it just keep spinning? cause I have 3 cdrw discs (memorex, acer) that just seem to spin forever... I can't erase them cause nero says 20min left then finished the erase procedure after only 2 minutes on those discs... is there any other way to erase the discs? I have an acer8x4x32 8mb buffer drive and want to save the discs $$$$

[kmiura182]

Yeah, that's weird. CD-RWs are supposed to be able to be rewritten over 1000 times. You should be able to rewrite the disc everyday for the next 3 years or so without the media going bad.

I have a Plextor 16x10x40. I wrote to one of my high-speed Memorex CD-RWs once and it worked just fine, until I popped it into the drive later to retrieve some data and the darn thing wouldn't stop spinning, and it kept freezing windows explorer. I finally fired up Nero and stuck the disc in the drive and hit erase Rewritable disc. It didn't work the first time, but when I tred it again, it erased it. Like vcdfreak says, it seems like Nero is pretty good at dealing with wacked out CD-RWs. The CD-RW has been working fine since.

kabanero, maybe you could try a different brand of CD-RW and see if the same thing keeps happening. Have you tried erasing them on someone elses CD-RW drive?

[SiCN]

Hm, by now I am not counting anymore how many times I erased and burned my original 5-pack of CD-RWs. I'd guess that I wrote on them a good 100 times and they still work. I guess it depends on media quality. I am using Maxell CD-RWs.

[excoelis]

i've got an old yamaha 4x4x16x (w/newest firmware upgrade) and it's got the same problem...i put a cdrw disc in and it won't recognize that it's there.
i'm using ricoh 4x's.

[videoguy79]

I have an old Philips 8x4x32x CD-RW that has given me the same problem---my CD-RW's only last 15-20 erase cycles. I'm using Philip's brand of CD-RW (the few that came w/ my burner) and Nero 5.5.7.2. I've had to pitch them since the drive won't even recognise that something is in it. I should mention that using Direct CD or CeQuadrat's Packet CD seems to exacerbate the problem.
Here's something to think about--I have heard that putting an otherwise usless CD-RW out in the sun (dye-side up) for a few hours seems to 'bring back' CD-RW's from the dead. I haven't tried it myself, so I don't know if that really works or not.

[biffos]

Got a LG drive 8120B and use Memorex CD-RW & LG discs with no problem, try CLONE CD thats got a nice erasure feature.

[buzzinhornets]

Is there any utility that can "SUPER-ERASE" a cdrw even if the drive won't read it... I just want to completely wipe it out so that it's blank again... but NERO never seems to complete the full erase process on these messed up CDRWs of mine... I need something that will burn and erase the "sh1t" out of these discs... there must be some utility that just keeps firing that laser at the disc to make it blank again...

[buzzinhornets]

funny thing... I just installed a new HDD, and as I was doing that, someone told me that I shouldn't have my secondary slave HDD on the same IDE cable as my CDRW drive... well I heeded that advice, and now my CDRW drive reads those discs... does having a HDD on the same ide cable as a CDRW really lead to problems? Why?

[MikeV]

Ran across and downloaded a program a while back that is supposed to repair bad CD/RW disks. I have never tried it yet, also don't remember where I put it I'll search for it and if I find it i'll post the name and link to download.

[91BRAVO]

Can you format CD-RW's?

[sonoma]

it's called superblank, and easy to find with google

[schwinn]

[quote="buzzinhornets"]
funny thing... I just installed a new HDD, and as I was doing that, someone told me that I shouldn't have my secondary slave HDD on the same IDE cable as my CDRW drive... well I heeded that advice, and now my CDRW drive reads those discs... does having a HDD on the same ide cable as a CDRW really lead to problems? Why?
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yes this can be a problem. It seems to be more so with some drives then others. The short answer as to why. The IDE/ATA bus can only write to one drive at time. The bus is now fast enough that it shouldn't matter but it does. I bought a Yamaha ez 2100 it wouldn't burn at all as a slave drive but burned fine as a master drive.I ended up returning it as it was loud enough to wake the dead. The replacement drive a TDK Velocd 24x is quite and burns slave or master.

[cdmate]

The little banner at the top, cd mate!
I know i have something to do with cd mate, but i erase my cdrws upto 20 times a day, no problems yet erase a 10x in approx 30 secs, havent really needed to use the fully erase option but it takes around 6 mins and completely wipes your discs!
The free trial is fully functional, you should give it a go, we are adding vcd support into the software within the next week!
It will burn most images including ccd iso cue/bin bwt and it can copy any cd if you have the right burner.
Converts mp3s to wav and it has lots more features too many to list here.
Built in cdr identifier too.
Give it a go it doesnt affect any other software you have installed unlike other burning software.

[Mirror_Image]

Can you format CD-RW's?

http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq03.html#S3-40