You might remember I posted a little while back about how Nero was telling me my disc tray was empty when I was trying to back-up files to a rewritable CD on an older computer.

Someone had posited that perhaps the problem was that the drive was not able to write to rewritable discs. Now, I just noticed that the disc-tray door says "Compact Disc ReWritable" on it. A friend of mine thinks the "ReWritable" may just refer to the fact that you can write to a disc on this; that it may predate the current-day definition of "rewritable". Is this possible? The computer is, at most, a few years old.

Ace said:

theres only 1 type of rewritable cdrs - if u have formatted the disc or put files on from another burning software or drive u can sometimes have problems. and u can usually only write a few times b4 they start 2 get scratched and cause problems (dvdrw's r worse)

Ace said:

i had this problem recently

after i upgraded my nero


now i have to format the disc first and then it works



i used not to have to do that but go figure

It seems going from computer to computer and writing on CD-RWs does not work for me unless I write in the same one I'd formatted in. One of the drives was a bit older, however, which I just sold on eBay for a measley $5.01. Perhaps the newer drives are more compatible with each other.