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Solve : DVD-RW won't erase CD-RW's or DVD-RW's?

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I have a NEC DVD-RW model ND-3500AG which supports just about every type of cd or dvd including CD+RW, CD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RW. It will write the the cd's or dvd's o.k. but using re-writable cd's or dvd's it will not erase the data. It treets the RW cd's and DVD's the same as CD-R's and DVD-R's. I have the latest drivers installed. I have tried UNINSTALLING the DVD drive in the device manager and letting windows re-install it. I can't seem to get it to write over using re-writable disks. Any ideas on something that I might be missing?you are not going to get help by spamming the board.testI did not mean to spam the board.
Every TIME I clicked on the "Post" button I would get some kind of error message indicating that my post did not go through and I would have to re-send. After re-sending a couple of times and always getting the error message I figgured the web site was having problems and gave up trying to post. Sorry if the posts did get posted and it appeared that I was purposely trying to spam your web site. Not my style and won't happen again.   Track - He did say Quote

I can't seem to get it to write over using [highlight]re-writable disks[/highlight].
I must say though, that was my first thought as well, that he was trying to use write-once disks.
OP - what software are you using to try and erase the DVDs?I have tried using CD-RW, CD+RW, DVD-RW & DVD+RW discs.
I have tried using Nero and Alcohol 120% to erase. If I try to format any of the above type disks using Nero INCD it formats the disk o.k. but when I re-insert the disk InCD tells me that it is a read-only disk and that InCD can read from it but not write to it.If this is Nero Express or similar - click "more" then choose erase disk.
It's something like that, it's been a while since I've USED Nero and I've forgotten exactly what it's called, but you should be able to find it (hopefully). Quote
I did not mean to spam the board.
Every time I clicked on the "Post" button I would get some kind of error message indicating that my post did not go through and I would have to re-send. After re-sending a couple of times and always getting the error message I figgured the web site was having problems and gave up trying to post. Sorry if the posts did get posted and it appeared that I was purposely trying to spam your web site. Not my style and won't happen again.  

my apologizes then. Thank you for that Homer.


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