Format DVD XP Pro

[Rickinrsm]

For the life of me I cannot find a way to format a RW DVD in the Disk Drive. (E:\)

Nero doesn't want to format withour picking a catagory or tast which doesn't suite my particular need.

I need a formted DVD for SyncBack backup program.


Any ideas . . . Rick

 

[rvnguy]

Rickinrsm,

While I have not formatted any DVD's the convention should be similar to that for CD's.

Formatting was never part of Adaptec/Roxio's CD Creator. It was a separate applet called CD Direct. This allowed for formatting and subsequent reading of this media.

I would assume that DVD's & Nero would handle it in a similar manner.

UDF is the file format used and you also have to have the reader(XP is native).

The Nero applet is INCD, it will format & read CD's & DVD's.

Get Nero User Guides Here:

http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/User_Guides.html

Hope This Helps

rvnguy
"I know everything..I just can't remember it all

 

[linney]

nero wont erase/format dvd+rw

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=112553

http://www.google.com/search?source...,GGLG:en&q=format+or+erase+a+DVD+with+nero+xp

http://groups.google.com/groups?sou...,GGLG:en&q=format+or+erase+a+DVD+with+nero+xp

 

[gargoyle47]

A word of warning.
Some of these programs like InCD and DirectCD create disk that are not accessible by other units. So if I were you I would create one and check to see if other machines can use the disk and access the information on it.

I used INCd for a while but found this problem when I went and tried to use a disk I had created to transfer files to another computer. I would not access the disk it say I need some viewer to do this.


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[linney]

gargoyle47, did you try this UDF reader?


UDF VOLUME READER 7.1.0.95

http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/software_updatesv4_2.jhtml

 

[gargoyle47]

Yes linney, found out about when I could not read the cd's.
However I was put off by it, I did not want to have another item just to read these cd's. I wanted every computer to just read them without something addition. This is why I decide that a straight burning program was better for me. Yes a little more work but I knew that I could take that cd and put it into any machine and the system would recognize it.

But thanks anyway.

Never Say Never (Romeio Void)

Homebuilt MSI MD5000MD-5000 M-ATX, 2.4Gig, 393mb, WinXp Pro
Homebuilt Iwill KK266R-Plus, 768mb, WinXp Pro