Can a CDRW media be made into a Coster? No scratches.
lbbs
little and have very few scratches. I can't read them or erase them. Is
this possible. You would think if there was a buffer under run error when
burning, that you could at least erase the cdrw and start again, right?
Physically, it is not damage in any way.
Dan G
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NDF
manufacturer for replacement.
Or there is a possibility that your CDRW Drive is on it's way out, this was
the symptoms a previous Ricoh CDRW exhibited before it finally died and was
replaced.
Can you explain more about how the discs are not working, are they not
recognised by the drive and your OS reports there is no disc in the drive,
or do you find that if you try to open the disc you see nothing.
If the disc is being initialised by the drive you might want to try Roxio
DirectCD to Scandisk then do a Physical Erase of the disk, this might fix
it.
If it a case of the drive not even initialising the disk then I suspect your
Drive to be at fault. This is a common fault caused by the inability for
the Laser to correctly draw enough power to focus correctly.
HTH
NDF
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Dave
I've had this happen to me too. I've had some luck erasing them using
Superblank when the burning software refused to erase them. The they
were usable.
http://www.cdrom-prod.com/download.html
Dave
Mike Richter
In order to do anything with a disc, it must stabilize in the recorder
and the format must be determined. If the directory information is
sufficiently scrambled, it may not stabilize at all or if it does the
directory may be unreadable.
Even if you could erase it:
1. Why bother, given the cost of replacement?
2. Would you trust it for anything? I wouldn't.
It's barely possible that it can be erased with Superblank (linked from
my site) or even by exposure for some hours to intense sunlight. The
latter is only sporadically successful.