How to Find Out if a Rewritable CD Is Closed
CD-RW media possesses the ability to be closed (or finalized), or left open to allow for more data to be written to the disc at a later time. However, without a software package that can check the status of the disc, there is no way to check whether or not a disc was previously closed. Luckily, this process can be performed using Ahead Nero's disc information utility. One can easily ascertain the status of any optical disc with this utility.
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Instructions
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Load Nero from its installed location.
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Click the "View" button located in the menu bar along the upper portion of the main program window.
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Select the "Recorder" heading from the resulting menu. This will produce a slide-out menu.
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Select the heading "Medium Info" from the slide-out menu.
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Review the media type in the drive from the resulting dialog box. If it is referred to as "CD-Rewritable" then the disc is still open. If it is referred to as "Read only" or "CD" then the media has been closed from a previous burning session.
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