Peppercorn Posted October 8, 2004 Report Share Posted October 8, 2004 Hi again fellow linux groovers I experimented with packet writing a few weeks ago with both CDs and DVDs without too much success and eventually gave up ........a loser! However, the DVD RWs that I was trying to format can no longer be identified by K3b or any other DVD burning program that I have installed. Now, I would really like to be able to resurrect these DVDs rather than throw them away. Can anyone give me any ideas of what I might be able to do or approaches to take??????????? Thanks for any help, it is much appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 Is there anyone out there with ANY ideas that may help me??? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I bet nobody else is trying to use packet writing. Myself, I've read that Linux was very experimental at it, so I decided not to use it. Nevertheless, if you give more details about what you already tried and did, then someone might help you... Good luck :) Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Well Yves All I tried to do (unsucessfully I may add) was try to format the DVD via a terminal. I forget the command that I used now, but it was one that I read somewhere to format a DVDrw to packet writing. All I have now is a couple of DVDs that cannot be read in any DVD Burning program or any DVD player or writer. I don't like giving in so I don't want to throw them out. But I don't know where to start to even try and resurrect them. Any ideas will be very much accepted!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Hum... There are two ways people could help you: - make those disks read-writable as you intended, - or make them usable as standard DVDrws. For the first way, I think you'd better find that article about DVDrw formating, because without that, you (we) can't know what filesystem you installed (or attempted to install) on the disks. For the second way, you should tell a little more about your error. Is it "no media found", or "cannot write to an already-written-to disk", or something else? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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