Nero Burning Problems

stephen

Hi Folks,

Hope somebody can help.

I am using Nero to burn to Verbatim DVD+RW's but it keeps telling me the disc is not erased even though I have erased it. I erased it with Nero and Windows erase and the same problem. This might sound silly but a new DVD+RW burns fine.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks
Stephen

kryyst

stephen wrote:

Hi Folks,

Hope somebody can help.

I am using Nero to burn to Verbatim DVD+RW's but it keeps telling me the disc is not erased even though I have erased it. I erased it with Nero and Windows erase and the same problem. This might sound silly but a new DVD+RW burns fine.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks
Stephen

There are 2 types of erase a quick and a total have you tried doing both?

stephen

Thanks for the reply,

Yes I have tried both the fast and total erase,

and it still says the disc needs to be erased.

kryyst

stephen wrote:

Thanks for the reply,

Yes I have tried both the fast and total erase,

and it still says the disc needs to be erased.

And it's finishing the entire process and not spitting out any errors? A fast erase should take 5-15 mins a total erase normally takes 10-20 mins.

When is it telling you that it's not erased? When you try to burn new files to it or at some other point? Can you maybe put up a screen shot or something? Also is it just this one specific disk or all R/W's that you've tried. They key being it has to be an R/W disc.

stephen

Thanks for reply.

I have tried it with 3 DVD-RW's and it the same story. No problems burning to a new DVD-RW or a DVD-R.

The error message is "The disc is not empty. Do you want to erase the disc and proceed" When I click yes it seems to do a quick erase and puts up the error message again. All this even though the disc has been erased already, and is empty.

I have a screen shot but I did'nt know how to post it, if you think it might help I can do it if you tell me how.

Thanks again for you interest.

bschie

To post a screen shot, just upload the file to a website like photobucket.com or imageshack.com

kryyst

Not to nit pick this but are you absolutely sure that you are using media that specifically says R/W on it and not just R.

stephen

kryyst wrote:

Not to nit pick this but are you absolutely sure that you are using media that specifically says R/W on it and not just R.

:smiles::smiles:I know I am Irish but give me a break. :smiles::smiles:(Joke) Yes I am certain they are RW and not just R.


I have been mucking around trying to post a screen shot and I still can't do it. If I figure it out I will post a shot of the error I am getting, It might be of some help.

Thanks again guy's.

bschie

If you want to post a screenshot then click "print sch". Open paint. Click Paste. Save as jpeg, png, etc. Create an account with photobucket.com or imageshack.com and they will give you a link to post.

stephen

This is a screen shot of what is happening. Once I click yes it seems to erase and then comes back to the same message again. The disc is empty.

bschie, thank for helping me with posting a screen shot. There is so much to be learned from you guys.

Thanks again

stoopid

You may need to perform a regular/full format of the media and not a quick erase. The prior burn may have been 'closed' (marked as no-longer-writeable) in which case you may need to format the entire disc and not just clear the MFT (table of contents, which is what a quick erase does).

This is, however, only a guess. When blank media bottomed out a few years ago at $0.15 a disc I stopped using RW media altogether (because of the occassional compatibility issue or overwrite problems like you're experiencing).

Qeldroma

A couple of thoughts-

Do you have all the Nero updates?

You might also try to reinstall your DVD firmware- better still, see if there is an update for it and install that.

Finally, if you got all the DVD-RWs from the same package, you might have a bad batch of DVD-RWs- try a different brand. It's rare, but I've seen it happen.

stephen

Thanks for the replys Qeldroma and stoopid.

I will check out your suggestions and let you know how I get on.

kryyst

Ok 1 problem is that R/W media leaves a file signature behind so that when you erase it it's not really erased to the original starting point there is still technically media there. Since you are trying to burn a movie if you are telling it to use a full DVD disk, your R/W has slightly less space on it then a full blank DVD, which could be causing this problem.

I would suggest instead of burning your movie directly to DVD in one step. First burn your project as an image to your harddrive. Then burn that image to the DVD. There are a couple reasons for this. First Nero uses a lot of resources to make a movie and there is a huge potential for error when making a direct movie to disk problem. If you burn it as an image on the HDD first it is a lot easier.

Second burning an image to disk is less system intensive so the chance that you'll get buffer errors is greatly reduced.

stephen

Thanks for the replys,

I am still working on some of the suggestions, (busy at work at the minute0 but something I came accross, if I insert a dvd-rw, which is supposed to be erased, go to my computer, right click on the drive and go to properties the disc shows up as all blue, no space available but with 0 bytes accross from it.

D'ont know if there is something in that or not.
I'll be back

stoopid

stephen wrote:

Thanks for the replys,

I am still working on some of the suggestions, (busy at work at the minute0 but something I came accross, if I insert a dvd-rw, which is supposed to be erased, go to my computer, right click on the drive and go to properties the disc shows up as all blue, no space available but with 0 bytes accross from it.

D'ont know if there is something in that or not.
I'll be back

I don't think windows will manage blank DVDs (only blank CDs), so it won't recognize the disc as something it can write to and will show this status.

What I thnik you need to try is in Nero, start a new multi-session DVD project. On the menu select Recorder, Erase Writeable disc, then select Full-erase from the drop down menu.

stephen

Thanks for all replys.

I have tried a few things that have been suggested and I finally got this to work, sort of. This problem seems to be a nero problem. I performed a full erase using nero and it works but not all the time. I then erased a dvd-rw on my dvd recorder (stand alone recorder) and it works everytime. I have reinstalled nero and it is an improvement, out of 6 attemps it worked for five.
For the amount of RW's I use it is no great pain to do it this way.
As you said stoopid it might be a lot simpler to stick to dvd-r and have a lot less hassle.

Thanks folks to all who replied.

bschie

stephen wrote:

Thanks for all replys.

I have tried a few things that have been suggested and I finally got this to work, sort of. This problem seems to be a nero problem. I performed a full erase using nero and it works but not all the time. I then erased a dvd-rw on my dvd recorder (stand alone recorder) and it works everytime. I have reinstalled nero and it is an improvement, out of 6 attemps it worked for five.
For the amount of RW's I use it is no great pain to do it this way.
As you said stoopid it might be a lot simpler to stick to dvd-r and have a lot less hassle.

Thanks folks to all who replied.

Not only that it's cheaper to.