Hello me again, you guys must think i’m really stupid.
Well here’s another dumb question, I’m trying to make a back up of my hard drive using Nero and a DVD+RW.
Everytime it starts the back up, after a few seconds it stops due to the DVD not being formatted. Now I thought this did it automatically.
I have also tried it on AVS video tools and the same thing happens.
Any ideas how I can format the disk without trying to perform any burning? I have never used this brand of DVD+RW before and the whole pack of 5 is doing the same thing. Am I missing something?
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you guys must think i’m really stupid.
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shut up, or i’ll slap your legs
BTW:everybody has to learn
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Well here’s another dumb question
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careful
right, you should usually only format a disc once before you start to use it, and if you have problems with a disc, usually a quick wipe is enough to blank a preformatted disc, however a full wipe is sometimes needed to sort some errors out, if you keep having problem with a disc you can reformat it, however, you can only reformat a disc about 20 times, after which the disc makes a very good coaster
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Any ideas how I can format the disk without trying to perform any burning? I have never used this brand of DVD+RW before and the whole pack of 5 is doing the same thing. Am I missing something?
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unfortunately i’m using linux & havn’t used XP or nero for quite a while yet, although i’ll look on net