WIndows 7 is unable to format rewritable CD

My Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium PC is unable to format rewritable CDs. It appears to be starting the formatting process, but after about 30 minutes it ends saying Windows was unable to format it. I tried the Disk Management console and it stopped responding after some time. A rewritable CD that it failed to format, I could format it in the Live File System on another computer running Windows 7 32-bit Enterprise.Any help will be appreciated.

I tried to add a file to the disc by dragging and dropping it in Windows Explorer. It gave me the following prompt.

"Please insert a writable disc into drive. "

But, after I format the disc on another Windows 7 computer where the disc does get formatted, I can drag and drop files to it and they get saved.

The built-in utility is complete and utter crap. Use CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn, both of which are free, to handle your disc burning needs. You'll have many more features and options that way.

Roadrunner - Yes, that is what I am trying. Thanks for responding.

DeaconFrost said:

The built-in utility is complete and utter crap. Use CDBurnerXP or ImgBurn, both of which are free, to handle your disc burning needs. You'll have many more features and options that way.

I have to clarify that I am trying to reuse rewritable CDs that I had used with Roxio Creator 9 Drag-to-disc on a Windows XP PC. If I format the used rewritable CDs with either of the above applications, will I be able to burn and delete files to them in Windows Explorer on computers that don't have these apps installed?

Thank you.

Roderunner said:

ubose,
what are you trying to put on the disks ? film, picture, audio or data files.

Mostly data files such as Word, Excel, PDFs, but also some pictures and MP3s.