"Dapper Dan" <dapperdan@home.com> wrote in message
news:O6dic2iEGHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Is there a specific number of times a DVD+RW can be reused?
>
They claim about a thousand times.
> I saved a one page document onto a DVD+RW (first time using)and it took up
> the whole 4.7 GB.
If you got this info from Explorer, be aware that DVDs and CDs
use a different file system. Most of the time, any file of any size will
cause Explorer to report the disk as being full.
>Then erased it and saved a large Folder (~399MB) containing many Files from
>my other computer. Checked it and all OK. Then elected to add more files
>from old computer but apparently disk full.
Which program reported this?
> Thinking I did something wrong, I erased again and started all over. This
> time saved all the files of interest but when I subsequently tried to use
> the disk, a message box appeared saying something to the effect unable to
> read the disk and/or disk is corrupt.
>
My thought is that all of these changes, etc., have somehow destroyed the
file system on the disk. Perhaps you can regain the disk with a full
format. As cheap as disks are, it hardly seems worth the bother.
Jim