i recorded a movie in a dvd rw i just got from a friend, i tryed using Nero Express to erase the movie from it, but it says that it is not re-writeable disc but it says RW on the cd.......anyone kno wat the problem could be?
Look at the bottom of the disc for the color of the dye. Dvd R is a blue/purplish color.
Dvd RW is more of a gray/silver color.
A lot of dvd +/- R media will have a small logo that says DVD-RW. The larger logo will say Dvd -R or DVD+R. Those logos fool a lot of people,and quite a few are on ebay trying to sell RW media when it's R media.
You can also insert that disc in your burner,open up Nero toolkit/then Nero infotool/select drive that the disc is in/and click the disc icon. It'll tell you if it's +R/+RW/-R/-RW
I was looking for some Made in Japan Fuji on ebay a couple years ago. This 1 seller had +8x RW fuji,but the picture he took, said DVD+R in large/bold letters,and DVD+RW in small letters. Half the media out there is like this.
The cost of RW media was around 4 times higher than R media back then,plus the 8x speed of RW's weren't even out yet. It took quite a few emails from me to him,but he edited the listing.
