Can no longer FORMAT CD/DVD

[bpa_retired]

Several days ago I burned several slideshows to CD-Rs using Dell Image
Expert. This program required that the new/blank CDs first be formated. I
formatted the CDs with no problem, and successfully burned the slideshows to
the CDs.

Today I tried to format a new/blank DVD+R and to my surprise when I right
clicked on 'Properties', for the CD/DVD burner, the 'FORMAT' option was no
longer there (it does still show up for floppy and flash drives). Also,
curiously when I insert a new/blank disc a window pops up stating that the
media is read only --never saw this message before.

The drive is working fine in all other aspects --I can read discs and can
write discs using other 3rd party s/w (Roxio RecordNow and Backup MyPC), as I
could also have done before this problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[neil]

I might be wrong but with the description you give it sounds like you are
using a windows function to right click the drive and select "format". This
may well work for CDs as windows can write a CD but not DVDs. Perhaps
that's why you cannot format a DVD using this method.
Neil

 

[NoConsequence]

I might be wrong but with the description you give it sounds like you are
using a windows function to right click the drive and select "format". This
may well work for CDs as windows can write a CD but not DVDs. Perhaps
that's why you cannot format a DVD using this method.
Neil

Further, XP has no ability to format a CD in any way, shape or form.
Formatting a CD or DVD is a way of preparing it for Packet Writing,
which XP does not support. You have to have third party software to
do it.

So, bottom line: Your question has absolutely nothing to do with XP.

Ask elsewhere.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

Several days ago I burned several slideshows to CD-Rs using Dell Image
Expert. This program required that the new/blank CDs first be formated. I
formatted the CDs with no problem, and successfully burned the slideshows to
the CDs.

Today I tried to format a new/blank DVD+R and to my surprise when I right
clicked on 'Properties', for the CD/DVD burner, the 'FORMAT' option was no
longer there (it does still show up for floppy and flash drives). Also,
curiously when I insert a new/blank disc a window pops up stating that the
media is read only --never saw this message before.

The drive is working fine in all other aspects --I can read discs and can
write discs using other 3rd party s/w (Roxio RecordNow and Backup MyPC), as I
could also have done before this problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

I can't think of any good reason to ever format a CD-R (a CD-RW,maybe),
and have trouble believing that any software would ask you to do it. If
you have packet writing software installed (Roxio's Drag-to-Disc, e.g.)
you can format DVD-RWs, but XP has no native ability to burn DVDs.

 

[Pathfinder]

Format CDs?
Hey man, you livin in the dark ages still

 

[sgopus]

go to the properties for this device and look under the recording tab and
recheck the enable cdburning for this device, bunch of idiots, to tell you
this is not a xp problem.