Race Guy Posted June 3, 2009 Posted June 3, 2009 I formatted a blank BD-RE with "Prefer Format Without Spare Areas" NOT checked, which saves some "spare area", as I discovered in another post. Consequently, I have a disc that's now about .75 GB smaller in capacity than a BD-R would be. What's the procedure to reformat this disc to "max capacity". Nothin's jumping out at me in the "Tools" pull down. Also, in the Write Settings tab, there's a pull down that says: "Prefer Format Size" & the 3 choices are "Preferred, Minimum, Maximum". The obvious choice is "Maximum", but is it the correct choice? Thanks!!
LIGHTNING UK! Posted June 3, 2009 Posted June 3, 2009 Tools -> Drive -> Erase -> Full. or Right click the drive selection box -> Erase -> Full or Click the 'Erase Disc' button in the Destination box when you're in Build/Discovery/Write mode. If you're formatting without spare areas then the format size option doesn't apply.
Race Guy Posted June 3, 2009 Author Posted June 3, 2009 EXCELLENT! I now have 12,219,392 sectors & 25,025,314,816 bytes free, which I think is identical to a BD-R. Thanks Mr. UK!!!
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