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Deleting Material off a DVD

PAU · 2011-10-11 08:51:45

Hi guys, I seem to be having problems trying to delete material of a DVD.I just want to erase the films I have on it and make a new one.It's not letting me format it as it's saying "The disc is not erasable", surely I can do this??. Cheers.

11-10-2011 8:51am

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PAU

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Hi guys,

I seem to be having problems trying to delete material of a DVD.I just want to erase the films I have on it and make a new one.It's not letting me format it as it's saying "The disc is not erasable", surely I can do this??.

Cheers.

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#2 11-10-2011 8:56am

ctrl-alt-delete

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You can only do it if the dvd is a rewritable format, I.e. Dvd-rw.

You cannot do this with standard dvd+r or dvd-r.

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#3 11-10-2011 8:58am

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If it's not an RW (rewritable) you can use this, only RW's can be written twice or erased (written blank)

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#4 11-10-2011 9:16am

seamus

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This is the only guaranteed way of securely erasing a disc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_bMYFmFGg

Seriously though, most home shredders come with a DVD slot that will shred the disc.

As said above, you probably have a DVD-R, not RW, so there's no way of using the disc again.

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#5 11-10-2011 9:37am

PAU

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Thanks guys, just thought with all the software around these days there might be a way.

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