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Shane:
You cant format a dvd-r because those disks can only be written to once. Thats why the -rw stands for rewritable and can be written to over and over. :wink:

Shane

jraju:
Hi, Shane
                     But whenever i insert a bland cd or dvd, a message pops up to say how i want to treat the said cd or dvd. The options are pendrive or as a written disc media. If i select, pendrive, then i just can use the cd r or dvd r as a pendrive, where you could add or delete file as normally as in pendrive in the CD thus selected. I tested and i was able to delete the contents in cd as in pendrive.
                             If i select the 2nd option, then it is only for writing once as in every dvd or cd r. I think that this option is available from xp onwards.
                                 am I correct, Shane. One more point. You could not revert the change, in that you cannot make it burn then if you select it as pen drive.

Rick:

--- Quote from: jraju on March 05, 2015, 10:44:12 pm ---hi, rick
                 Please use this fix it. It may probably fix your problem.Read then use.
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems

--- End quote ---

the fix it does not re-install the CDROM.SYS file too

sorry, it ain't 100 percent till it does

Boggin:
When you want to burn something to a DVD in Windows, if anything needs doing to the disk before hand, Windows will tell you such as if you use DVDs for system images, it tells you the disk needs to be formatted first, but by following the prompts, Windows will do this for you.

Is there any reason why you want to format a DVD ?

Rick:

--- Quote from: Boggin on March 17, 2015, 01:47:24 am ---When you want to burn something to a DVD in Windows, if anything needs doing to the disk before hand, Windows will tell you such as if you use DVDs for system images, it tells you the disk needs to be formatted first, but by following the prompts, Windows will do this for you.

Is there any reason why you want to format a DVD ?

--- End quote ---

not really, but the systems says to so can use the dvd

here is the Laptop DVD giving the trouble ; photo attached
therefore, it makes no sense why it did not work unless the system drivers were changed...
I re-installed the DVD bios, will test it later

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