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Reusing Your Burned CD-R and DVD-Rs

This is the second part of my post about Rewriting on a write-once discs. The first article is a vital one so that this second part be easier to understand, and also you can get and formulate some ideas and concepts about this burning hot thing.

If you have a lot of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs stocked on your room and is needed to be disposed of because you no longer need and use it, then just read this post. You may use that burned CD again.
Yes! I repeat you can still use it again,,, again and again.

Again, this tutorial is only meant for Windows 7 operating system only.

Before you start:
Just make sure that you no longer use the files on the disc because this tutorial will format the whole disc, meaning all the files in it will be permanently erased.
As discussed on the first part, formatting or deleting files on a read-only / recordable disc does not provide you an additional free space on your disc. The memory allocation for the deleted file will still be counted as used space, although you have deleted and cannot see the erased file. So logically, ONLY FORMAT DISCS THAT HAS ENOUGH FREE DISK SPACE.

First, insert the burned +/-R disc in the DVD burner., after it has been loaded, right click the drive and choose format. The format window will appear:

Click start. It will show you a warning... just proceed (by clicking YES).  Wait for the format to complete as shown.

And you're done. You can now drag and drop the files on the drive to store files AGAIN and AGAIN, just like a normal USB flash drive.

 
So next time you are required to submit a project in your school that is needed to be stored in a CD... you already know what to do... Why do I need to buy huh?
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  1. a cooperatorJune 17, 2012 at 12:57 AM

    For me, when I cliked right-click on the disc which was bruned before or even which have been reofrmated with your first part, I didn't see any 'format' option shows me, although my system is Windows 7 home premium SP1.

    What is the matter with me.

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  2. a cooperatorJune 17, 2012 at 1:00 AM

    In addition, what difference is there between this part of yours and the the first part?

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  3. a cooperatorJune 17, 2012 at 1:10 AM

    Only the first part has been successful for me, especially when I try to reformated a new CD/DVD-R. But this way as I said before didn't make any differnce. I would rather use a USB Flash Driver because it is easier to use than to reformated a new DVD/CD-R. I would rather use a new DVD/CD-R to burn iso or any other files once insted of reforamting DVD/CD-R in order to use them as USB Falsh Drive many times.

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