Crest Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 When using a used cdrw every version of Imgburn above 1.1.0.0 formats the cdrw while trying to burn a new movie. So I use 1.1.0.0. This one quick formats. The newer versions do a full format. So it takes a lot longer tot burn. And not needed. Is this a bug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornholio7 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 not for me, i just inserted a rw with data on it , imgburn told me it needed to be formatted before it could write to the disc I 00:33:49 Device: [0:1:0] BENQ DVD DD DW1640 BSRB (E:) (ATA) I 00:33:49 Media Type: CD-RW I 00:33:49 Quick Erase: Yes I 00:33:49 Erasing Disc... I 00:34:13 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Do you really mean CDRW? It will only format brand new DVD+RW (or those that haven't been fully formatted), nothing else. All others are erased or simply overwritten. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crest Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Do you really mean CDRW? It will only format brand new DVD+RW (or those that haven't been fully formatted), nothing else. All others are erased or simply overwritten. Yes, I use CDRW's. 1.1.0.0 works fine. All higher relaeses do a full format (20 min.). So I use 1.1.0.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I don't recall changing anything for CDRW. It's not a format of media I do *anything* with these days! Here I am trying to reproduce whatever the problem is you're having.... Put disc in drive... This is what the program says in the box on the right: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (ATA)Current Profile: CD-RW Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: Yes Sessions: 1 Sectors: 136,612 Size: 279,781,376 bytes Time: 30:23:37 (MM:SS:FF) The status bar reads: Ready (Disc Needs Erasing) I then select an image to burn and hit the 'Write' button. Now this pops up: ---------------------------ImgBurn --------------------------- This disc needs to be erased before you can write to it. Would you like to erase it now? --------------------------- Yes No --------------------------- I click 'Yes'. It then begins to erase the disc. I 21:45:03 Operation Started!I 21:45:03 Device: [1:0:0] PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (G:) (ATA) I 21:45:03 Media Type: CD-RW I 21:45:03 Quick Erase: Yes I 21:45:03 Erasing Disc... I 21:45:30 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:26 Hmmm... no problem there! Do you actually have a full log handy of you doing what I've just done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crest Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 I don't recall changing anything for CDRW. It's not a format of media I do *anything* with these days! Here I am trying to reproduce whatever the problem is you're having.... Put disc in drive... This is what the program says in the box on the right: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (ATA)Current Profile: CD-RW Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: Yes Sessions: 1 Sectors: 136,612 Size: 279,781,376 bytes Time: 30:23:37 (MM:SS:FF) The status bar reads: Ready (Disc Needs Erasing)I then select an image to burn and hit the 'Write' button. Now this pops up: ---------------------------ImgBurn --------------------------- This disc needs to be erased before you can write to it. Would you like to erase it now? --------------------------- Yes No --------------------------- I click 'Yes'. It then begins to erase the disc. I 21:45:03 Operation Started!I 21:45:03 Device: [1:0:0]PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (G:) (ATA) I 21:45:03 Media Type: CD-RW I 21:45:03 Quick Erase: Yes I 21:45:03 Erasing Disc... I 21:45:30 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:26 Hmmm... no problem there! Do you actually have a full log handy of you doing what I've just done? Today again. I use a CDRW which has already a film burned on it. I put in the disk. I want to burn a new film on it. It is a .img file. So I click right and choose "burn with ImgBurn". Then ImgBurn says: "The disk needs to be formatted before you ca write to it. Whould you like to format it now?" I click "yes". Then: I 20:53:33 ImgBurn Version 2.0.0.0 started! I 20:53:33 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 20:53:34 Initialising SPTI... I 20:53:34 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:53:34 Found 2 DVD-ROMs and 1 DVD?RW! I 20:55:26 Operation Started! I 20:55:26 Device: [3:0:0] LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S KS0B (G:) (ATA) I 20:55:26 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MKM-A02-00) (Speeds: 4x) I 20:55:26 Quick Erase: No I 20:55:26 Erasing Disc... Quick erase is NO. With 1.1.0.0 it says YES. So formatting takes 20 minutes. With 1.1.0.0 about 30 seconds. Thats the problem. Can you help me out please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenadjian Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 I 20:55:26 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MKM-A02-00) (Speeds: 4x) I thought you said you were using CDRW's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defenestration Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 Crest - Try unchecking the "Prefer Properly Formatted +RW" option on the Write tab of the Settings dialog. This should cause IB to do a quick erase with DVD+RW media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crest Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 I don't recall changing anything for CDRW. It's not a format of media I do *anything* with these days! Here I am trying to reproduce whatever the problem is you're having.... Put disc in drive... This is what the program says in the box on the right: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (ATA)Current Profile: CD-RW Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: Yes Sessions: 1 Sectors: 136,612 Size: 279,781,376 bytes Time: 30:23:37 (MM:SS:FF) The status bar reads: Ready (Disc Needs Erasing)I then select an image to burn and hit the 'Write' button. Now this pops up: ---------------------------ImgBurn --------------------------- This disc needs to be erased before you can write to it. Would you like to erase it now? --------------------------- Yes No --------------------------- I click 'Yes'. It then begins to erase the disc. I 21:45:03 Operation Started!I 21:45:03 Device: [1:0:0]PLEXTOR DVDR PX-760A 1.04 (G:) (ATA) I 21:45:03 Media Type: CD-RW I 21:45:03 Quick Erase: Yes I 21:45:03 Erasing Disc... I 21:45:30 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:26 Hmmm... no problem there! Do you actually have a full log handy of you doing what I've just done? Today again. I use a CDRW which has already a film burned on it. I put in the disk. I want to burn a new film on it. It is a .img file. So I click right and choose "burn with ImgBurn". Then ImgBurn says: "The disk needs to be formatted before you ca write to it. Whould you like to format it now?" I click "yes". Then: I 20:53:33 ImgBurn Version 2.0.0.0 started! I 20:53:33 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2) I 20:53:34 Initialising SPTI... I 20:53:34 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 20:53:34 Found 2 DVD-ROMs and 1 DVD?RW! I 20:55:26 Operation Started! I 20:55:26 Device: [3:0:0] LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S KS0B (G:) (ATA) I 20:55:26 Media Type: DVD+RW (Disc ID: MKM-A02-00) (Speeds: 4x) I 20:55:26 Quick Erase: No I 20:55:26 Erasing Disc... Quick erase is NO. With 1.1.0.0 it says YES. So formatting takes 20 minutes. With 1.1.0.0 about 30 seconds. Thats the problem. Can you help me out please? Correst: I meant DVDRW's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted August 27, 2006 Share Posted August 27, 2006 That was the very first thing I asked/checked with you and you've repeatedly called it 'CDRW' ! It does help if you provide us with correct info otherwise we'll just bark up the wrong tree for hours on end and waste time. This DVD+RW formatting thing has been covered many many times. It will only do a full format if the disc hasn't been properly formatted. You 'should' be able to do it once and then not worry about it again. If that's not happening, either your drive just plain can't format properly or some other program is then mucking up the format later on - that's it's problem, not ImgBurn's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crest Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 That was the very first thing I asked/checked with you and you've repeatedly called it 'CDRW' ! It does help if you provide us with correct info otherwise we'll just bark up the wrong tree for hours on end and waste time. This DVD+RW formatting thing has been covered many many times. It will only do a full format if the disc hasn't been properly formatted. You 'should' be able to do it once and then not worry about it again. If that's not happening, either your drive just plain can't format properly or some other program is then mucking up the format later on - that's it's problem, not ImgBurn's. Sorry. It is a DVD+RW. You are right. My mistake. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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