User Guide

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the InCD icon in the system tray will change and a green arrow (showing the
presence of a formatted medium in the drive) will be displayed instead of the
red one. In addition, a window will be displayed, telling you that formatting
has been completed successfully.
3.4 Reformatting with InCD
InCD handles CD-RW, CD-MRW, DVD-RW and DVD+RW disks in different
ways. Please refer to the table below for details and read the section concerned:
CD-RW With high speed media (burning speed 4 to 10x), reformatting takes
about 20
minutes. With low speed media (1 to 4x), a period of about
40 minutes is necessary. See the section on 'Reformatting CD-RW
and DVD-RW media'.
CD-MRW The medium can be written on after just 1 to 2 minutes of reformat-
ting. In other words, it is possible to store data on the medium while
it is being formatted 'in the background'. See 'Reformatting a CD-
MRW medium' section.
DVD-RW Reformatting takes about 120
minutes. See the section on
'Reformatting CD-RW and DVD-RW media'.
DVD+RW The medium can be written on after just 1 to 2 minutes of reformat-
ting. In other words, it is possible to store data on the medium while
it is being formatted 'in the background'. See the 'Reformatting a
DVD+RW medium' section.
Please note that no high speed medium (4 to 10x) can be used in a low speed
RW recorder (1 to 4x).
3.4.1 Reformatting CD-RW and DVD-RW media
If a medium which already contains data is formatted, then the data already
contained on it will be erased so that you will be able to write on the whole
medium again.
If a medium has been written on a number of occasions, under certain
circumstances there may be a breakdown during the reformatting process, due
to errors. In this case we recommend that you delete the data on the medium