From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:51:15 -0300, Shadow  wrote:   
      
   >On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 05:29:26 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I'll check it on my laptop, which is still able to format CD and DVD-R discs   
   >>as it has Windows 7, and I haven't made the mistake of installing Nero on it.   
   >   
   >	You cannot format a DVD-R disk, unless by format you mean   
   >filling the disk with 1's or 0's, in which case it can never been   
   >written to again. A DVD-R is designed to be written to just once. Of   
   >course, if you have not "closed" the disk, you can add data, but never   
   >to a region that has been written to before.   
      
   Of course you can format a DVD-R (or DVD+R) disc, at least in Windows 7. I   
   think XP can only do it with CD-R discs.   
      
   Once it is formatted you can copy files to it in the same way as you copy them   
   to any other disk, or to a USB flash drive, but once copied they are   
   read-only, and when the disc is full you can't re-use the space -- that's what   
   WORM discs do.   
      
      
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