dbminter Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 I'm having a little difficulty figuring this one out. I put in a disc which I thought had never been written to before, requiring a full format. However, when I put it in for writing, it did not say it needed to format the disc first. So, I entered Read mode to see what, if any, disc label was on the disc to see what might have been written on there before. But, there was no label, so I started the Read operation to see if there were any contents on it, and ImgBurn began reading the disc to ISO. So, I cancelled the read operation and decided to check the disc contents in File Explorer. But, File Explorer said the disc was empty! It just listed empty space X GB of X GB free. I forget the exact amount, 4 something. When I double clicked on the drive, Windows wanted to format is as a giant USB device or whatever the other option is. So, how can ImgBurn be reading a supposedly empty disc to an image file? Could I possibly have formatted the disc as a giant floppy in the past and forgotten about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 DVD+RW yeah? Once formatted, they look like a burnt disc. It'll just read the entire disc from start to end as there's no way of knowing the 'burnt' size without being able to understand a file system that may or may not be present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbminter Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 Yes, it was a DVD+RW in question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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