Formatting

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I am trying to format my D: drive (using DVD) by get an error message saying
disc is damaged.
I have been able to format in the past, can anyone help

Thanks
 
Try another disk!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I've tried 5 & get the same message
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bill


Richard Urban said:
Try another disk!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Bill

If you are trying to format a rewritable DVD, you must use DVD software to
complete the task.. you can't use XP format utilities to do this, which is
what I suspect you are trying to do..
 
You only format floppies, hard drives, USB flash drives, CD-RWs, DVD+RWs,
DVD-RWs and DVD-RAMs. You DO NOT FORMAT CD-Rs, DVD+Rs or DVD-Rs.
 
If you want to use a CD-R as another hard drive you format it before hand
for packet writing! I do it all the time.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
CD-Rs on a WRITE ONCE media! If you format it, you can not use it. You
should be using CD-RWs.
 
I guess you don't know about packet writing software such as Nero InCD and
Roxio's Drag To Disk!


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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I do knoiw about Drag to Disk and InCD! It is still recommended that your
use CD-RWs instead od the write once CD-Rs.
 
You get 250 meg more on CD-R's. If you are doing archival storage (vs.
temporary file saving) - why use CD-RW's at 540 meg vs. CD-R's at 790 meg?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Yves, we've pointed out why you are wrong on this before, but (big
sigh)

You CAN format CDRs. Granted, you can't do it in InCD, but other
packet-writing utilities let you do it with no problems.
 
WRONG. You can format it using Drag-to-disc and then continue writing
to the CDR until it is either full, or you decide to "finalize" it, at
which point the CDR is closed to further writing.

Quit stating falsehoods as facts, please.
 
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