{"id":215,"date":"2004-10-24T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-24T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/dvd-rw-media-must-be-new-or-fully-blanked-before-each-use\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:16:06","slug":"dvd-rw-media-must-be-new-or-fully-blanked-before-each-use","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/dvd-rw-media-must-be-new-or-fully-blanked-before-each-use\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD-RW Media Must be New or Fully Blanked Before Each Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use DVD-RW media with&nbsp;Image for DOS, Image for Linux,&nbsp;or Image for Windows, the media must be either brand new,&nbsp;fully blanked, or formatted&nbsp;before each use.&nbsp; To be &quot;fully blanked&quot; means to be completely overwritten. This must be done&nbsp;using a third-party application such as Nero (in which case it would be the &quot;Full-erase rewritable disc&quot; option).&nbsp; Using a &quot;quick erase&quot; function will not work.<\/p>\r\n  <p>This requirement does not apply to CD-RW or DVD+RW.&nbsp; That is,&nbsp;Image for DOS, Image for Linux,&nbsp;and Image for Windows can overwrite CD-RW and DVD+RW discs natively.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wish to use DVD-RW media with&nbsp;Image for DOS, Image for Linux,&nbsp;or Image for Windows, the media must be either brand new,&nbsp;fully blanked, or formatted&nbsp;before each use.&nbsp; To be &quot;fully blanked&quot; means to be completely overwritten. This must be done&nbsp;using a third-party application such as Nero (in which case it would be the &quot;Full-erase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1805],"lsvr_kba_tag":[],"class_list":["post-215","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-shared-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}