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daleslad - Feb 29, 2008 - 1:50 am

I can't erase my DVD+RW disc.
I've burnt and erased this disc a couple of times now to copy movies for viewing on a TV and it's worked just fine.
This last time I burnt the DVD as usual and watched the movie I had burnt on over the weekend. When I tried to erase it and copy another movie to it this time it wouldn't let me erase.
-I checked out Info. for the Ownerships & Permissions it said "You can only read"
I verified and repaired my permissions in case that was the problem but still wouldn't erase.
I had actually used 3 of these disc to load movies onto and none of them would erase.

DeltaMac - Mar 1, 2008 - 11:41 am

Are you using your Disk Utility to do the erase, or some other software? Always try Disk Utility first. As you know, the erase process takes a long time.
The RW disks can be very vulnerable to damage. If the erase fails, or simply doesn't finish, then your RW disk is likely bad. Find a handy trash can (rubbish bin), and let it go.

- Dale

daleslad - Mar 1, 2008 - 4:19 pm

Hi Delta, I don't know what has happened but I thought I would try to erase my 3 discs again and this time it worked like it is supposed to.
I am in the process of transferring a movie to one of them again using Tivo Transfer and Toast.
Hopefully this problem has solved itself .
Thanks for the suggestions.