DVD Format Utility - Where Art Thou?

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Vincent

I have searched for hours and hours and cannot find a FREE dvd
formatting utility. Does anyone know where I can find a simple, easy
to use and FREE DVD format utility? It must work with any brand dvd
drive. I'm thinking of something along the lines of Panasonic's
DVDForm utility. I would gladly use this utility, but it will only
work for Panasonic DVD drives. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank
you.

-Vincent
 
You do not format DVDs or DVD Rs. Only DVD RWs could be formatted. In DVD RWs,
you need to locate "packet writing" tools. I have not found a "free" tool but
I do know that the follow tools do this:

Roxio's Drag to Disk (previous known as DirectCD)
Ahead (Nero) InCD.
Sonci's DLA
 
Yves said:
You do not format DVDs or DVD Rs. Only DVD RWs could be formatted. In
DVD RWs, you need to locate "packet writing" tools. I have not found
a "free" tool but I do know that the follow tools do this:

Roxio's Drag to Disk (previous known as DirectCD)
Ahead (Nero) InCD.
Sonci's DLA
Click to expand...

DVD-RAM disks can also be formatted. XP supports DVD-RAM disks natively if
you have a DVD Ram drive, obviously; SP2 installed; and turn off the default
XP CD burner.
 
Hi,

I have a related problem. I have the ASUS DRW-1608P2S which can burn DVD-RAM
disks. I bought my first disk this week but when I tried to drag files to it
in Windows XP SP2 I got an error. The folder that opened up on disk insertion
was labelled "CD Drive". I thought that perhaps it needed formatting so I ran
up Nero and formatted (erased) it as a DVD. I then wrote some data to it.
However, I would like to use the disk as a removeable drive and drag-and-drop
files to it. Under Windows Explorer I right-click the drive and choose Format
then Start. After a while it fails with "Unable to complete the format". I
was under the impression that XP had native support for DVD-RAM but it's not
working for me. Kindly tell me what I'm doing wrong.
 
XP has native support for READING DVD, any writing will be provided by
3rd party software.
 
I installed InCD from my Nero disk, rebooted and used InCD Format to format
the DVD-RAM. Now I can drag-and-drop. Thanks Bob I.
 
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