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Installed El Capitan a few days ago. Tonight I'm trying to erase a DVD RW disk, but the Disk Utility screen doesn't activate the Erase button. Now what do I do?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Any luck? I have the same problem.
No answers from anyone, Greentip. Interestingly, when my Seagate drive is plugged in and turned on, the erase button is available. So I could erase my entire 500 GB Seagate drive, but not a measly little 4.7 GB DVD+RW disk. Very, very strange!
Many thanks, maddened. I was also grateful for a response on
How to get disk utility on el capitan to erase?
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That didn’t come out right. Just to say thanks for getting in touch and sharing the problem. Perhaps Apple have done with such disks.
This is the answer:
Ctrl-click (or right-click) on a mounted CD-RW and choose the option to Erase the rewritable disk.
Thanks again for getting in touch.
Well, it erased...I guess. Took all of about 5 seconds to erase 4.5 GB. I've always used the slower erase, to be absolutely the new files were recorded on a squeeky-clean disk.
Thanks for the info, Greentip. Now I can get back to work!
Disk Utility Erase button
