if13 Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I have two Maxwell DVD+RW discs which I have been using to burn my video projects. I have been able to erase the data on one of these discs but have been unsuccessful with the other. The Erase Disc gave me this message: Cannot Read Medium - Incompatible Format. The Smart Erase is giving me the error message attached. The strange thing is that I can still see the video on the disc using my dvd player. Just as I could on the one the other one before it erased. Any ideas?
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 If the normal Quick / Full erase is failing, your drive has an issue with the discs you're using. There's no magic fix for that. Smart Erase isn't for your drive, it's for LiteOns only - hence why it fails.
if13 Posted March 8, 2013 Author Posted March 8, 2013 Thanks for your reply. One other question. Is there a way using imgburn to deprotect a write protected disc? I thought I try to refortmat this one disc and see if that helps but windows is telling me that is write protected.
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Unless you've got something running in the background that's locking the drive/disc, the 'write protected' message could just be your drives way of saying it doesn't support the disc and can't write to (or erase) it.
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