I've got a question in regards to a 'destroyed' DVD+RW. The behavior I'm seeing is my DVD drive (a NEC 1100A) isn't recognizing my media, a Philips 4x DVD+RW.The specifics are I burned a home movie to the Philips DVD using Pinnacle Studio 9,
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which said it succesfully burned the DVD. But upon reinserting the DVD into the same DVD drive, all I get is 'No medium present' My question for you is two-fold: 1) Is there any way to recover my DVD+RW so I can use it again?
If unit says "no media," then there is hardly anything one you do. You *might* be able to reformat it in another unit of *different* brand though...
2) What could have caused this in the first place?
Are you sure that it wasn't a media defect on that particular disk? How many discs got wasted? One? I mean can you really confirm that *every* time you let Pinnacle burn a DVD+RW, the disc is rendered 100% useless?
What did Pinnacle do?
If you really can reuse every particular disc multiple times *till* Pinnacle screws it up, then only Pinnacle would be able to tell what they did the do [or didn't] and resolve the problem.
^^^^^ Same media *brand*, not same disk, right? That is the question you should ask yourself. A.Using other programs like Nero or DVD Decrypter, I can burn fine with the same media/DVD drive.