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BK>> If you write enought to fill a DVD then what you write over has
BK>> to be gone, otherwise there is no room to write anything else.

BK>> There is a quick erase, which deletes the records of locations,
BK>> but that is still written over when the DVD is reused. Then
BK>> there is a full erase, which wipes the actual data.

 JB> This one leaves me speechless..

 You didn't know that? I don't know what software you are using,
 but if you erase a DVD RW in Nero, it first asks you if you want
 a quick erase or a full erase.

 If you do the quick erase, then when you write the new data it
 effectively erases the data as it writes the new data.


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