rewriting cds

[marybeth]

not sure if in right spot so feel free to send me there if youd like. I have some dvds and cds i no longer need but am not sure how to rewrite them. They are rewritable. Am using wind xp. Thanks for help
mary

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Welcome to ComputerHope.

If the CDs and DVDs have CD-RW or DVD-RW, they are rewritable.
If they only have an '-R' at the end, they are only one-time discs.

If they are RWs, pop them into the drive and, in My Computer, click Right Click the CD Drive Icon and click Format.

[patio]

What burning program are you using ? ?
If just Windows may i suggest CDBurnerXPro...it's FREE and works very well.
There is an option in the Tools Menu for erasing re-writables...

Welcome to CH !

[TheShadow]

I quit using RW's several years ago, because they just were NOT reliable.
They might work OK on the drive that wrote them, but fail to read on some other drive.
They are also, much more expensive than standard CD-R's .

At the ridiculously LOW price for CD-R disks, I just reach for a new disk every time I need to use one.  No more RW's for this guy!!!

But if you absolutely Must......every decent quality CD/DVD writing program will have an option to reformat a RW disk. 

Good Luck,
The Shadow 

[patio]

Shadow,

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[marybeth]

Thank u for suggestion, I was using nero but it was on a 2 week trial. I know cds r cheap but i didnt want to fly to the store cause i only need to burn some wedding pictures from my harddrive and i have a bunch of old cdrs and dvrs here. Thanks again I will try cdburner, I have nothing to lose if the burn comes out ugly
mary

[patio]

It's a great program and you'll find it will do almost everything Nero will do...

[Dias de verano]

I would not store anything important like wedding pictures on a RW disk. I do use them for burning AVIs that I watch on my Mpeg4 capable DVD player, if I know I won't want to watch them again.

[marybeth]

well its just a copy of whats on my hard drive, but i have another problem and dont know what the deal is. I am trying to burn the pictures now but all that burns is a file number (or something) of all the pictures and u have to click it before it actually shows the picture. Do you know what im trying to say. Im not sure how to fix this cause i wanted it to show lide show
thank you for any help
mary