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Hello Support
I am running Monterey V12.7.6 on my iMac.
I am using an external apple optical drive attached to my computer via USB cable.
I am trying to initialize a DVD-r but disk utility will not give me the option to erase / format this disc.
Is there another way please?
They come formatted, if you were to erase you would not be able to Write to it anymore.When you insert a blank disc it should put a Blank DVd 0r CD icon the the Desktop, you then drag fioes to it, when you ave ddroped them on that icon, eject the Cisc for it to Write to it & close it for any furher Writing,
Store information on CD and DVD discs on Mac - Apple Support (MZ)
if it was me then I would just use some of the free optical disc burners software and have them handle it
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Thanks for your response
The problem is that the disc does not show in finder. I can't mount it or do anything with it unless it is formatted. Can't do that because Disc utility won't allow me to erase the dic to initialise it
Unable to initialise a blank DVD-r on iMac
