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[Severian]

Quick and probably dumb question. I just wrote my first RW using MJ, and when I went back to erase it and put a whole new slew of tracks on it, nobody wants to cooperate. Both XP and MJ believe that this disc is now a CD-R.

I'm just using the stock OS tools, and not any 3rd party tools, to deal with my CD-RW issues up to this point. Is there a utility that can return this CD-RW to RW again? Or am I just out of luck--is it baked and it can't be unbaked now?

[phatrabt]

You will have to format the disc just like you would a HD.  I dont know where the tools to do this are located right offhand, but if you poke around you should be able to find them.  HTH

phatrabt

[Severian]

That's what I meant by the first line, above. The formatting options are no longer there...because it now thinks the disc is a CD-R, which you can't format.

[claudio]

DirectCD (was Adaptec now Roxio I believe) allows you to do just that without reformatting (and to read a RW on most of the CD-R drives, and simulate a CD-RW in a very transparent way on a mulsession CD-R)

Claudio

[Severian]

Good tip, man. I don't have the Roxio tool but Nero shipped with my burner. I installed it and that fixed it right up; it had an erase function in one of the menus. I'm reburning a RW right now. Too bad XP doesn't support such functionality right in the OS.

Wish gods, is there any prayer of having a function like this added to MJ (9)?

[Darwyn]

Media Jukebox and Windows XP have both erased CD-RW discs for me.
You just click on the CD-RW drive letter "(E: )" in the case of my machine. On the left side bar you should see "Erase this CD-RW" icon and text underneath "CD Writing Tasks" menu. Press that and let it do it's work. It erases the TOC usually in 30 seconds or so. The CD will show up as blank next time you insert it.

[Severian]

Special.
Mine don't.