How are you tring to do it.

If you burn a DVD with DVDA you can re-burn again with DVDA, DVDA will warn that the disc contains data as part of the burn process.

If you want to use it like a big floppy disk you need to format it with something like InCD part of the Nero package or an equiv and access the files through explorer etc.

That help?

Paul

Sorry . .yes copied files for sharing to client .. want to reuse DVD+RW for DVD . . this was copied to from Windows Media PLayer. 800mb MPEG file . . I wish to rtmove it and USE new DVD menus and stuff for new project . .

TIA

Grazie. .

I "think" you should be able to just burn to it within DVDA

Paul

Thanks Lads . .never done this before! I used Nero Express and went for "Erase Disc" option . . 20 seconds later clean re-usable £3.00 disc . .thanks!

Grazie

Yes Paul, correct I've been upskilling myself on DVDA2 . . been
making "test DVDs" all day . .excellent package . . Your Nero thing was easy, very easy . . G

I never did get the erase to work properly so gave up on those discs.
Sometimes the third time thru and it was jumk. At the time the discs cost $25.00 each. Gave all my discs to my buddy and he had the same problem and said "why am I messing with these things" and tossed them.

JJK

. . well it's worked . .cleaned off everything back to +4.4gbs . .lovely . .Grazie

Interesting, I have Fuji +RW I have recycled at least 15+ times each, no problem just erasing them with Nero.

Can't speak to the +RW, but I used to have occasional problems with -RW disks. I would tell Nero to erase, and it would say it did so, but then other programs would still see audio files (!) on them. Haven't had a problem with the more recent Nero releases.

All of my erase problems were long ago and I suppose everything works fine now. But I still don't use them as the DVD-R's are so cheap I can pump out 5 test discs almost like inkjet paper.

JJK

I'm sure Green Peace would like to know too!

Peace and love . .. Small is Beautiful . ..

Grazie

Just to share with you all, have been using DVD-RW (not DVD+RW, though..) of (quite a few) various brands (and those of no-brand, too..), most of them are easily eraseable with writing app that can do erasure (Record Now, Nero, and etc, especially those that come with the writers). None, so far, has cause any major problems with any of the Pioneer and Sony DVD drives, and the Sony Writers here. They play perfectly well on all Sony and Pioneer and no-brand dvd players here, too. However, some of the DVD drives occasionally have smooth playback problem with certain disks (particularly no-brand type).

1 thing I noted, too, is, brand does not always assure compatibility - some discs play well in some drives but not the others. The manufacturer name is a more reliable indicator (but, not all the time, too.. as all manufacturers make all kind of discs).

kerrying, thanks for the word of warning. Nothing is as straightforward as one thinks sometimes! - G