How do I format a blank CD-RW disk?

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Clevo said:
Formatting means preparing a media to accept files of certain bits and
bobs.... you do not need to format a DVD or CD +/-R.

Format in a modern sense is formating the disc so that determins the
book style. and that's done and selected after working out what your
intensions are with the media.

Erasing previous information on a RW disc is not formatting it in
anysense... it's just removing data.
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Wrong. You still need to format the disc when packet writing, like when
using something like Nero InCD or Vista's built-in Mount Rainier writing.

ss.
 
Clevo said:
Erasing previous information on a RW disc is not formatting it in
anysense... it's just removing data.
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Oh, and this bit is totally wrong. That might be true with CDR and DVD+/-R,
but not CD-RW or DVD+/-RW. When you erase a RW disc, you get the full
capacity back.

HTH

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
Oh, and this bit is totally wrong. That might be true with CDR and
DVD+/-R, but not CD-RW or DVD+/-RW. When you erase a RW disc, you get the
full capacity back.
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Ah, I misread your statement that time. My apologies.

ss.
 
You haven't had Vista or built one because it asks for all of them to be
formatted. It iws verry irritating because it takes for ever and then it may
or may not work.
 
I have never hadto format a cd -r or DVD -r... I have used RW a couple
of times and don;t recall being asked to format it.
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If you want to drag and drop files to an RW, you WILL have to format
it first. To merely burn to it, no.
 
Donald L McDaniel said:
To "format" your CDRW, simply "erase" it. In the case of CDRWs,
"erasing" them is the way one "formats" them.
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Sorry that's wrong. if you format a CDRW it makes it available for packet
writing - ie it turns it into a large floppy disk allowing the user to drag
and drop files to and from the disk without going through the burning
function. Simple erasing does just that - erases the data, it does NOT
format the disk.
 
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