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01 Feb 2012 | #1 |
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Erasing a CD-RW disk
In the instructions from MS, it says to open Computer, click on drive that has the disk and on the "tool bar" click on "erase this disk". There is no option to erase showing.
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01 Feb 2012 | #2 |
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I would use Imgburn. The first time Imgburn sees it, it will want to format it. That may take 20 minutes. After that you can do Quick Erase. The Erase options are in the Tools menu Drive submenu.
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02 Feb 2012 | #3 |
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Can you just right click on your CD in "My Computer" and then click "format"? I would try it myself but i cannot find any of my RW disks. Sorry i cant help more.
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02 Feb 2012 | #4 |
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You can right click the disk and select erase this disk.
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02 Feb 2012 | #5 |
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Try with a brand new CD-RW disc, and then check whether you get the "Erase this Disc" in the tool bar. Also try writing to the new CD-RW disk. Does it burn? |
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02 Feb 2012 | #6 |
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My first thought was: You might have grabbed the wrong CD (i.e. a CD-R at least that's more plausible than loosing menu options out of the blue. Plus I can relate to it since it happened to me before, too
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02 Feb 2012 | #7 |
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The built-in app is total crap, and unreliable on good days. Get ImgBurn or CDBurnerXP, both of which are free, and you'll have much more control over your disc burning.
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02 Feb 2012 | #8 |
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But that does not address the basic issue raised by the OP - Why is the Erase this Disc missing in the tool bar? (I do have ImgBurn, CDBurnerXP, Nero, Cyberlink's Power2Go, Ashampoo Burning Studio 10, many other programs that have auxiliary burn functions and others like IsoBuster which access the optical drive but none of them have taken away the basic Windows utility and I do use that erase function often instead of digging through the other programs.) |
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02 Feb 2012 | #9 |
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To all those that answered my problem with erasing a CD/RW diskette, many thanks. However, the problem remains; there is no erase option anywhere on my toolbar/s. Also right clicking on the CD drive icon does not bring up either erase or format options. So how would I go about getting those options back? I'm using Win7 Pro.
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02 Feb 2012 | #10 |
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It may not help but try running scannow
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