Formatting DVD RW disks

[realaleman]

I've just today needed to use some re-writable DVDs and tried to format them to get rid of the data I put on them last year. InCD goes through the formatting routine, but when it gets to the end the PC crashes and reboots itself. When it boots up I get the following message on screen:

The system has recovered from a serious error.

A log of this error has been created

Please tell Microsoft about this problem
We have created an error report that you can send...

the following files will be included in this error report

C:\DOCUME~1\MRWILS~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb764.dir00\Mini061 208-05.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\MRWILS~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WERb764.dir00\sysdata .xml

These files don't seem to exist, the folder within the temp folder is just not there. Anyway I guess these 2 files will only make sense to the guys at Microsoft when you press the button to send the info.

I used to be able to use RW disks, but that was probably with my LiteOn drive which died. I've now got a Samsung Writemaster SH-S182D which should do the job according to the TSST website specs page.

Has anybody got any ideas please?


Incidentally from My Computer the properties show just a blue disk with 0bytes used and 0bytes total.

[ACtheTROLL]

on face of it ... software first
you could try uninstalling/re-installing

or
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ImgBurn/1 128426215/1
is free ... so give it a go

[realaleman]

Thanks for the suggestion AC, but I've already tried that prog. Its great for writing files to a DVD R but it won't format a DVD RW.

cheers, Geoff

[ACtheTROLL]

it do ... it do

go to
http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=6 392

edit | find on this page
Destination - Device

The erase button will allow you to erase the disc if it's desired. ImgBurn will ask you which type of erase it should perform.

If the +RW/BD media has not been previously formatted or is in the need for a full erase the 'Quick' option is disabled. A proper erased/formatted +RW media can then just be overwritten the next time you write to it without the need to first do an erase. -RW media always needs at least a quick erase before a new writing.

Quick
This is the fastest of the two modes as the deleting will be done by writing zeros to the first 800 sectors.

Full
ImgBurn will write zeros to the full disc. This erase will take the same amount of time as it will take for a regular writing to the media at MAX speed.