WIndows 7 is unable to format rewritable CD

[ubose]

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.

 

[Roderunner]

RW CD's only need formatting after adding files, use erase button instead.

 

[ubose]

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.

 

[Roderunner]

Is this what your attempting ???

 

[DeaconFrost]

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.

 

[ubose]

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

 

[ubose]

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]

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

 

[ubose]

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.

 

[Roderunner]

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.

Thats what I put on my disks but I use DVD-RW

 

[cyclic]

Often it comes down to the make of the CDRW\DVDRW you are using, do have the opportunity to try a different make. Any with the name ritec on the inner circle of the disc are pretty much infallable.

 

[ubose]

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.

If I use these programs to format the rewritable discs which were used in the past with Roxio's Creator 9 Drag-to-disc, will I be able to burn and erase files in Windows Explorer? That's because I shall be using the discs on other computers not owned by me and therefore those computers may not have these programs installed. Windows 7, I learnt, uses the Live File System format to write/erase files on rewritable CDs.

 

[DeaconFrost]

The whole purpose of using actual programs to burn is so you create discs that are standard, and any computer can read them. The built-in burner isn't reliable, and doesn't give you any features or control over the discs. The Drag-to-disc feature you mention was one of the most unreliable pieces of software to ever be created.