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DVD-R disc will not format? Locked?
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Original Message
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Name: James
Date: January 16, 2002 at 06:50:06 Pacific
Subject: DVD-R disc will not format? Locked? |
Comment: I am trying to test burn a dvd on i-dvd for
the first time on a new g-4 mac with
superdrive, but when I put in the blank
dvd-r that came with the system, it asks
me if I want to initialize it as the ProDos
format. When I say yes, it says the disc is
locked. Why is it locked? I have never
used it before. What should I do? I am
using OS 9.2.
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Response Number 1
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Name: The Wierdo
Date: January 16, 2002 at 13:23:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You are using the correct drive to try and
burn the disk? That's assuming you have
two or more drives. Is the disk mounting on the desktop? If
so, it means the disk has allready had
something written on it - the disk probably
is not an intended DVD-R if it has been
written on, either that or someone has
been using what they should not of been. If this is not your answer, I hope you find
it, but might I suggest you use something
other than a DVD-R in the writer to test it,
as you won't ever be able to use it again
once you have written to it.
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Response Number 2
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Name: the pickle
Date: January 16, 2002 at 17:09:20 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Not sure when you're putting the disc in,
but try getting iDVD all ready to burn and
then click "Burn" or whatever. It should ask you to put in a blank piece of
media. Put the disk in *then* instead of
trying to put it in beforehand. That'll probably work; I have the same
problem with blank CDs when I haven't
written anything to them yet. p
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Response Number 4
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Name: the pickle
Date: April 24, 2002 at 19:37:39 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Are you putting the disc in immediately
after clicking "burn" (or whatever the
button is called)? p
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Response Number 5
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Name: marcuse@ohio.edu
Date: May 16, 2002 at 10:58:00 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Okay, I'm having the same problem. I
want to burn a DATA DVD, so I can't click
'burn.' When I insert it, it says 'disk is
locked' and forces me to eject. help.
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Response Number 6
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Name: the pickle
Date: May 19, 2002 at 15:51:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)AFAIK, iDVD does not allow burning of
data DVDs. What software are you trying
to use? p
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Response Number 7
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Name: Chris
Date: July 20, 2002 at 10:33:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I had the same problem. Kept getting the "locked" message. Then I used Toast 5 to burn my DVD-R and everything worked great
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Response Number 8
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Name: Jacquie Greff
Date: July 21, 2002 at 13:30:35 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I was having similar problems and read the
messages above. I was using DVD Studio Pro
and got the locked disk message when I tried
to initialize. However, when I went through
the DVD Studio Pro menus first and waited
until it asked me to insert a DVD disk,
everything was fine. I've also discovered in the past that I can
avoid the locked disk message by using OS X
instead of 9.
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