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Message Board > How do I wipe backup from DVD?
How do I wipe backup from DVD?| geek_carolynscraps | March 10, 2008, 10:28 am | #1 | | How do I wipe backup from DVD? How do I wipe and delete a backup from a DVD?. Once a week I do a backup on my computer, and save it to DVD. I have to use a blank DVD each time. I would like to just use one DVD disc and rewrite over it each week with the back up so I don't end up with lots and lots of discs, but when I click on the disc, there is no option to delete. |
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| | geek_quick-trade | March 10, 2008, 10:34 am | #2 | | .... Are you using DVD-R media or DVD-RW? You can only rewrite a rewritable DVD. So if your using the correct media it should give you the option? | | geek_carolynscraps | March 10, 2008, 10:39 am | #3 | | Thanks ... I should have realised!! I bought the discs to save my scrapbooking layouts to, to keep them safe, and forgot that when using another one of the discs to do the computer back up. I will have to buy the rewritable ones. | | geek_mrfxit | March 10, 2008, 10:40 am | #4 | | DVDRW You can NOT delete data from a DVDR. DVDRW disk's are what you need. You would STILL be better off using the permanant DVDR's as backups because it gives you a multiply amount of chances that at least ONE of your backups will be ok. . . . Besides . dvdr disks are only about 50 cents per disk & dvrw are about $1 each | | geek_kevin16 | March 10, 2008, 10:43 am | #5 | | And,.. get a usb drive for the backup-backup,.. | | geek_quick-trade | March 10, 2008, 10:50 am | #6 | | .... Also as I'd suggest maybe you could change the DVDRW every month. You can't rewrite to a DVDRW forever and the more you do it the more likely something will go wrong when you need it most. Trust me it's not worth saving a couple bucks now to be screwed later on. | | geek_sirfer | March 10, 2008, 7:51 pm | #7 | | Re #6 for multiple writings a DVD-RAM is best (~100,000 rewrites but slow at only 2-3x), but even better is a laptop hdd in a usb enclosure, millions of re-writes! :) | | geek_deus701 | March 10, 2008, 9:05 pm | #8 | | Dvd-r are cheap ...jus use them as coffee coasters | | Leave your comment: | |
Message Board > How do I wipe backup from DVD?
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