DVD-RW Disc Repair Util

[Ian]

Well.. a drive I was testing screwed up a few DVD-RW discs. Now no drive can recognize them. Does anyone know of a utility that can do a force format/erase on them?

[rdgrimes]

Did you try DVDInfo-pro?
I've had some success by alternating that with Nero, and doing alternating quick-full erase in Nero. Sometimes it takes a few cycles for the disc to "get the idea". If all else fails, I find that a large hammer will erase them very well.
Mind telling us which drive did this? DVD- is sure a buggy format.

[aviationwiz]

I'd also be intrested in knowing what drive it is.

rdgrimes,

I agree with you 100% there, DVD - is a very buggy format, DVD + all the way!

[Ian]

Yeah, I tried DVDINFOpro. I'd hit erase and it wouldn't do anything. I'll play around with it more later.

The drive that did it was an Optorite 0203 clone. I tried burning a data disc with Nero and it just sat there. Buffer didn't fill or anything. Looking at the disc though, the drive was doing something.

[kirpen]

I had dvd+rw problem with nero before but was able to get the disc to erase with copy to dvd.

[dhc014]

I've heard that the Nu Tech DVD Burners will have an interesting feature added through firmware later.

"it returns RW media substrate to original state, colour will return to brand new state and faulty bits will be able to be fixed. resurecting used RW's"

[Ian]

Yeah, thats IF they can add support for DVD-R/RW.

[cfitz]

Looking at the disc though, the drive was doing something.

Of course it was. It was destroying your RW disc. It's a security feature designed to prevent people from reading your personal data.

cfitz

[rc213]

I am having the same problem with a Sony DVD+RW. Wrote data to it and tried to delete it and it just sat there and gave an error. Now i cant erase it no matter what i do. (Pioneer DVR-106D)

http://www.cdrlabs.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12872&highlight=

[seaegg]

The only software I use to erase my RWs is DVDDecrypter. I've had Nero screw up a few before and since switching to DVDDecrypter I've never had this problem again.

[mc_365]

I have a DVD+RW disc that I wrote to about 3 times an then it stop working. When I put it in any drive it just keeps spinning up and down fast then slow for about 10 - 15 minutes and all programs report it as empty but when I try to do anything with it my system hangs for long periods.

Admitidly this was some el-cheapo media from K-Hypermicro. My question is to those of you that were able to recover your disk did you have similar symptoms to what I discribed. If so maybe I will try to erase it again just to see if I can recover it.

[MonteLDS]

DVD - is a very buggy format, DVD + all the way!

I would have to disagree.. I only own RW's that are + and all of them won't seem to erase. + seems to be some what weird too.. maybe it is just DVD/RW

While my DVD-Rs are fine

[integspec]

I'm not sure whether this this directly applicable but when my Liteon 52327S messed up some of my CDRWs, I couldn't get them to read on any other drive. So what I used to do is, start Nero and call up the erase rewritable option. Then insert the media and click erase. I have successfully done this in my Liteon 411, Samsung 348B.

Probably you might've tried this already but good luck anyways. Btw, even after the latest FW upgrade, 7S still messes up Rs and RWs.

Cheers.

[Ian]

I finally recovered them using a TDK 440N (NEC ND-1300A) and DVDINFOpro. Where other drives failed, the 440N had no problems recognizing the disc as a DVD-RW.

Thanks to everyone for their help.

[rc213]

Anyone got any help for me? When i try and burn it in Nero 6 (Latest) i get this error:

Write Error
Generating DVD high compatability borders
Generating DVD borders completed successfully