I am curious if anyone has ever tried to reuse a DVD RW? And by reuse I mean burn some mp3's or WMA's on there and then later on erase them and burn some new ones on there.

I have tried this and it doesn't seem to work. Seems that once the disk is finalized, you cannot erase the files.

I am curious if anyone has ever tried to reuse a DVD RW? And by reuse I mean burn some mp3's or WMA's on there and then later on erase them and burn some new ones on there.

 

I have tried this and it doesn't seem to work. Seems that once the disk is finalized, you cannot erase the files.

I have done it all the time - works fine for me!

I've even re-used them for vids too!

I am curious if anyone has ever tried to reuse a DVD RW? And by reuse I mean burn some mp3's or WMA's on there and then later on erase them and burn some new ones on there.

 

I have tried this and it doesn't seem to work. Seems that once the disk is finalized, you cannot erase the files.

 

I have done it all the time - works fine for me!

I've even re-used them for vids too!

Can I ask what burning program you use?

The problem is not finalizing the disk, your issue sounds media related. If your using Memorex media your bound to have issues. They have the worst quality standards. I would try a different brand of media.

Did you re-format before you tried to tried to write data on it again ?

I have had problems with Memorex and Fuji DVD+RW before.

OK well I am not sure what I am doing wrong here. I have tried using a Verbatim CD-RW disk and still cannot erase the files. It's says that they are read only files which cannot be erased. I have tried erasing them using windows CD-RW erase wizard and tried using Nero. No luck! I burn the disk using nero. What method are you guys using to erase the disk. And how do you re-format it, I can't find that option?

I think you have to burn them Multisession, and when you add stuff, it has to be in a new session.