Doc Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hi All I inadvertantly formatted or at least tried to format a Sony DVD-RW as a CD-RW using XP . When I reallised I erased it. I tried then to reformat using NTI DVD maker, it failed so I tried a full erase, it failed too. Someone suggested ImgBurn. That too failed to do a full erase the error was W 14:16:43 Potential 'WaitImmediateIO' Deferred Error - (0/2) - Power Calibration Area Error I got the same error in several different DVD-RW devices At least it gave me some error information :-) is this disk now stuffed or is there some way of doing a deep physical erase to get rid of all fomatting that may still be causing a problem? I have heard of somthing that can do this "DC ERASE technology or somthing" that can rejuvinate some dodgy disks Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I admit I have never heard of this before - surprised the drive would allow you to format a DVD-RW as a CD-RW but I don't know much about them.... I am sure you have realised that ImgBurn allows you to fully format a disc, when you did this disc was it doing the full format ? Also have you just tried writing to the disc and seeing what happens then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 I admit I have never heard of this before - surprised the drive would allow you to format a DVD-RW as a CD-RW but I don't know much about them.... Well I was suprised too! and after thinking mmm the disc must have been stuffed to start with I decided in for a penny in for a pound and pulled a cheaper DVDRW checked it was ok using ImgBurn (All good). Removed it from my drive added it again and got XP to format it as a CDRW. Yep it had a good go but failed midwayish, but wait! It now behaves exactly as my original screwed disc, it cannot be erased or formatted as a DVD-RW or anything else for that matter. So Hopefully I have for the cost of two CDRW's prevented someone else tring this rather stupid thing! FYI- My Drive is a DVDRW 16X standard that ships with the Acer veretron series 7700GX Since ImgBurn could format and read write intact discs fine I suspect it's an XP issue along with my stupidity though I'm surely not the first to try this am I ? I am sure you have realised that ImgBurn allows you to fully format a disc, when you did this disc was it doing the full format ? Yep, I actually downloaded ImgBurn to do the original deep erase but it failed. Also have you just tried writing to the disc and seeing what happens then ? Yep, fails miserably. Still looking to find a really deep physical eraser the link below seems to suggest it is possible though you need a new type of drive it seems they suggest it's a good way to bring malfunctioning discs back to life. Though I'd like to see it before I beleive it. (http://www.dvd-recordable.org/Article1548-mode=thread-order0-threshold0.phtml) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lfcrule1972 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 I like the sound of DC Erase, not sure either my BenQ or NEC drives would support it but I can it being quite useful when dealing with "faulty" DVD-RW's.... Thanks for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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