i boughta eurovision cd rw boxed 1 week ago i burned couple of docs and wen the next time i click on nero to erase the files it gave me a notice that u cannot erase a cd-r same thing happens with the windows cd writing on e drive dunno wats the prob is i have loads of queries

and one more thing i had written my name with a ball pen on the cd i have loads of queries

And you did, definitively, write the originals on CD-RW (as opposed to CD-R)??

galaxy you do understand that in order to Rewrite on a CD you need rewritable media as was stated by Ray above. I have used CDRWs for many years and I STILL have the CDRW blank disk that came with my first Plextor burner. I can only think of a few instances where using rewitable media makes sense. Most times the media is 10 times more expensive so why bother. Each time you rewrite the capacity diminishes too.

"i had written my name with a ball pen on the cd" Why? Worried you'd forget it? Ballpoint really isn't recommended I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter

OtheHill Interested to read your comments. I've never found capacity decreasing when using CD-RW's unless they get so tatty that bad sectors start appearing. In which case I bin them. I agree that CD-R are a much better bet but there are times when you require to keep changing data on a CD and of-course CD-R's can't return the unused space. DerekW

derek This is an excerpt from an article on CDRW media. "Any particular spot on a CD-RW disc can be erased and rewritten about 1000 times (soon to be improved to 10,000). After that, that particular spot becomes unusable. However, DirectCD is designed to avoid the same physical location being repeatedly written to and erased, using a technique called "sparing". This significantly extends the life of a disc, but at the cost of an overhead which reduces effective storage capacity. Even if a particular location on a CD-RW disc does get "burned out", DirectCD can mark it "unusable" and work around it (much the way bad sectors are managed on a hard disk). Consequently, it is highly unlikely that a CD-RW disc will become worn out". Find the complete article here: http://www.pctechguide.com/33CDR-RW...