Repairing coasters

I have some DVD-RWs which are now coasters, unreadable by WinXP. When
put in the drive, they can not even be formatted or erased. They just
cause Windows Explorer to hang.

I know the non-RW discs would be history, but these are rewritable and
I'd think there should be some way to repair them. Any suggestions?

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BT

Bill Turner

Bill Turner wrote:
> I know the non-RW discs would be history, but these are rewritable
> and I'd think there should be some way to repair them. Any
> suggestions?

Try to reformat them with a different program than what you are using.
-Junior

unclejr

>Bill Turner <> wrote:

>I have some DVD-RWs which are now coasters, unreadable by WinXP. When
>put in the drive, they can not even be formatted or erased. They just
>cause Windows Explorer to hang.
>
>I know the non-RW discs would be history, but these are rewritable and
>I'd think there should be some way to repair them. Any suggestions?

Under the heading of "for what it's worth":
I had a CD-RW go south, requested Nero to write a tiny extra file to
it, something like 60k. There was a warning that because the last
write wasn't a multisession, XP likely wouldn't be able to read the
disk afterwards (for whatever reason, erasing didn't seem to be an
option). The write went smoothly; as predicted XP didn't seem aware
anything was in the drive. Also didn't see any other disk that had
been formerly written, which was a tad scary

At this point I probably should have rebooted, but didn't. Reinstalled
Nero, then rebooted. Everything was back as it should be, the CD-RW
has been reused many times, and XP sees it as with any other disk.

Maureen Goldman

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:57:35 -0800, Maureen Goldman
<> wrote:

>Under the heading of "for what it's worth":
>I had a CD-RW go south, requested Nero to write a tiny extra file to
>it, something like 60k. There was a warning that because the last
>write wasn't a multisession, XP likely wouldn't be able to read the
>disk afterwards (for whatever reason, erasing didn't seem to be an
>option). The write went smoothly; as predicted XP didn't seem aware
>anything was in the drive. Also didn't see any other disk that had
>been formerly written, which was a tad scary
>
>At this point I probably should have rebooted, but didn't. Reinstalled
>Nero, then rebooted. Everything was back as it should be, the CD-RW
>has been reused many times, and XP sees it as with any other disk.
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Thanks, will try that.

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BT

Bill Turner

On 29 Jan 2005 10:20:35 -0800, "unclejr" <> wrote:

>Try to reformat them with a different program than what you are using.
>-Junior
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Will do, thanks.

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BT

Bill Turner

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:40:00 -0800, Bill Turner <>
wrote:

>I have some DVD-RWs which are now coasters, unreadable by WinXP. When
>put in the drive, they can not even be formatted or erased. They just
>cause Windows Explorer to hang.
>
>I know the non-RW discs would be history, but these are rewritable and
>I'd think there should be some way to repair them. Any suggestions?


Wait for a very hot day in summer and leave them exposed to bright sun
on a flat surface for about 6 or 7 hours. Used to work for CD/RW's,
at least when they first came out.

E. Barry Bruyea

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:08:00 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea <it'>
wrote:

>Wait for a very hot day in summer and leave them exposed to bright sun
>on a flat surface for about 6 or 7 hours. Used to work for CD/RW's,
>at least when they first came out.
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Interesting idea. We have lots of those days here in the Mojave Desert.
I'll give it a try. Thanks!

--
BT

Bill Turner

I personally use DVD Ram
"Bill Turner" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 08:08:00 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea <it'>
> wrote:
>
>>Wait for a very hot day in summer and leave them exposed to bright sun
>>on a flat surface for about 6 or 7 hours. Used to work for CD/RW's,
>>at least when they first came out.
> __________________________________________________ _________
>
> Interesting idea. We have lots of those days here in the Mojave Desert.
> I'll give it a try. Thanks!
>
> --
> BT
>
>
>

Wolf