cdrw bad sectors

OK i have a few cdrws. and on the ones in bad shape with i burn to them i can read all the files. SO i figure to many stratches. Well what program would i use to mark the unreadable sectors on my cdrw. I have tried the quick and full erace methiod and they dont work. so far only uning a program like direct cd works. but thats not what i want to do. thanks.

Supporting AMD with your breakable stuff.

get some tooth paste and use a damp cloth to clean the scratches of your cd's then try and re copying them to the hard drive and see if you can read all the files. then burn it from the hard drive.

A program that fixed scratches on a cd or reads thru them?
Not that im aware of, thats totally dependant on your burner. There is some contraption at the eletronic stores for about 25 bucks will clean them up called dr. dvd or sometihg with the letter dr. in it. Try that.

The standard doesn't support that. Most software is going to assume that any RW is 100% error free. There is simply no provision for detecting and remembering bad sectors as their are for hard drives, floopies and zip disks.

Sounds like what you really want is Mount Rainer,
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Mount Rainier is a standard that provides background formatting and defect management for storage on CD-RW and DVD+RW. This makes rewritable discs far easier to use and allows the replacement of the floppy. In the near future, native Operating System support for Mount Rainier is available.
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http://www.mt-rainier.org/

Some CD Burners now support the standard, but I haven't found any DVD Burners that are compliant.

Still it sounds cool, even if we will all have to buy new CD burners to use it. If it can truely replace the floopy (work on all PCs without special hardware, bootable and writable from DOS) then I am all for it.