Pioneer Rd106 - Will Not Format

[Gill_110]

I have a Pioneer RD106 CD/DVD drive. I am unable to format CD RW's or DVD RW's for the purpose of drag-and-drop to disc. The drive will allow me to play CD's and DVD's. It will allow me to burn to the CD/DVD provided the disc was formatted on another drive. I have used Nero and Roxio. When I start the full format, after about 15 seconds, the message, "Format operation on drive E:\ failed: the drive has reported a problem with the media". I have used TDK, Sony, Maxel and Phillips media. DMA/Ultra DMA is enabled.

Can anyone please give me some suggestions about how to solve the problem.

Also, can someone recommend the best software for DVD formatting.

Thanks.

[JimP]

Hi, The only thing I can think of at the moment is that maybe you are trying to use WINDOZE's formater. Use ROXIO/ADAPTEC's or whatever burner you are using. Most any burner software including XP (I Think) will offer to format a disk, even a CD-R if you stick a CDR/RW into the burner while the program is running. Hope this helps a little, Jim