I recently brought a motherboard, with which i got a DVD for installing the drivers.Now that i had installed all the drivers i want to format it for personal use.But when I try to do so an error pops out saying that the drive is write protected.I googled about this and tried various methods but none worked.
Methods I tried and did not work
Registry hack which i found in Microsoft's forum It did not solve my problem.(note-this method was actually suggested for CD-RW But mine was a DVD-RW)
A method using Disk part which i found on Microsoft's forum Disk part did not recognize my disk
Some forums suggested erasing the disk,but i did not find erase option.
I tried out the regular way to format and
I tried burning some files but windows said "Please insert a writable disk"
Some specs which might be useful to diagnose this issue.
- Windows 10 enterprise 64 bit
- If any other spec is required please do ask :)
1 Answer
You cannot erase pre-mastered disks on any drive. Just because you have a rewritable drive ("RW") does not mean the disk itself is rewritable.
The only disks that can be written to are DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW disks. Only the "RW" disks can be subsequently erased in order to be reused. The "R"-only disks can only be written to, and while you can add data that "overwrites" the old data, the old data is still on the disk and can be recovered.
DVD disks that do not specify +/-R or RW will be read-only disks and you cannot format them.
Manufacturer supplied disks are not going to be writable in any way at all.
You need to buy specific disks in order to write to them.
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