Help Cd-rw Problem

Nigel_Dempster · 30 August 2006 at 10:49PM

Hi folks can you help a non techie please?
While trying to burn something on to a cd-rw 700mb rewitable disc it came up with 'do you want to format?' I pressed yes and now can't get the disc to work. Is there anything I can do to get it working again.
Thanks

albertross_2 · 30 August 2006 at 10:56PM

Did you let it format, takes a while. After that, you should be able to drag and drop.

Try formatting it again.

Nigel_Dempster · 30 August 2006 at 11:38PM

Thanks for the repy
When I put the disc inot the drive and let it load, in the details box it says
Free Space 0 bytes
Total Size 0 bytes
I seem to have deleted eveything including memory from this disc.

albertross_2 · 30 August 2006 at 11:52PM

Try doing a full format.

Nigel_Dempster · 31 August 2006 at 5:10AM

Thanks for the help, but, I can find the format control for the floppy drive but
not for the cd drive? Cann you point me in the right direction please?

albertross_2 · 31 August 2006 at 1:18PM

Do you have Roxio Direct CD installed, or Nero?

ZZRKarlos · 31 August 2006 at 3:26PM

Under XP you just insert the disc, then a box will open up...select "open folder to view files", then select "erase this cd-rw" which is on the top left under "CD Writing tasks".

Which program did you use to format the disc ?

Nigel_Dempster · 31 August 2006 at 8:27PM

thanks for your replies.
Albertross. I haven't got any programmes loaded albertross, should I?
ZZRKarlos When I put the disc in it shows having no content and no memory ie instead of it saing 700mb it says 0mb and the disc has nothing on it