A07U hacked 1.18 erased 2X DVD-RWs at 4X, no longer usable?

[CHaynes112]

Greetings,

I have the Pioneer DVR-A07U. I have been using the hacked 1.18 firmware and everything was fine. I was in a hurry and I quick-erased three 2X DVD-RWs at 4X with Nero. Each time it gave me an error (the only reason I did it three times was because I didn’t know I had it set to 4X at first ). Now I cannot use the discs at all. In My Computer, the drive goes to the icon that just says “CD Drive” instead of “DVD-RW Drive” whenever I have one of the 3 discs in. I have tried to erase them again with Nero, but it says there is no DVD-RW disc in the drive. I even tried a Full Erase at 1X. I went back to the official 1.18 firmware, but that didn’t help either. Is there any way to recover the discs, so I can use them again?!

Any help would be appreciated… - Thanks

[fubarfupo]

Yes the same thing happened to me… Totally ruined 2 discs… (2x TDK DVD-RW) that was several months ago and I never used a hacked firmware again

[somervillec]

Greetings,

I have the Pioneer DVR-A07U. I have been using the hacked 1.18 firmware and everything was fine. I was in a hurry and I quick-erased three 2X DVD-RWs at 4X with Nero. Each time it gave me an error (the only reason I did it three times was because I didn’t know I had it set to 4X at first ). Now I cannot use the discs at all. In My Computer, the drive goes to the icon that just says “CD Drive” instead of “DVD-RW Drive” whenever I have one of the 3 discs in. I have tried to erase them again with Nero, but it says there is no DVD-RW disc in the drive. I even tried a Full Erase at 1X. I went back to the official 1.18 firmware, but that didn’t help either. Is there any way to recover the discs, so I can use them again?!

Try using DVDInfo, it has a disc formatter and eraser built-in.
I had the same problem with 2 of my dvd-rw’s but dvdinfo fixed them.
Use the full format function first.

[CHaynes112]

Okay, the problem is fixed… I used DVDInfoPro. I had to slow erase (long time!) the discs and then go back and format them. Now all 3 work fine

[chef]

Yes the same thing happened to me… Totally ruined 2 discs… (2x TDK DVD-RW) that was several months ago and I never used a hacked firmware again

No one forced you to use the patched firmware - you were using it at your own risk.
Nero is known to be buggy especially when it comes to erase RW media.
DVDInfoPro can cure that problems in most cases.

[fubarfupo]

No one forced me to use official firmware either. BTW I had tried several programs to erase. 4x RW media is cheap now… get a clue

[mikewillnot]

Yes the same thing happened to me… Totally ruined 2 discs… (2x TDK DVD-RW) that was several months ago and I never used a hacked firmware again

Flaming aside – When you went back to non-hacked firmware did the -RW problem go away?