I used a  disk image/recovery program to recover data from a failing
hard drive over a year ago, and I am finally able to restore the data
to a new drive.  My problem is I dont remember the name of the
recovery program used.

Recently my "I/O Magic 52x24x52/16x Internal CD-RW & DVD-ROM Combo
Drive" has started creating coasters whenever I try to burn a CD.
Neither CD-RWs or CD-Rs work. It reads back old previously burnt CDs
fine, and DVDs. I just refuses to create new ones. I tried a different

Sorry if this is the wrong NG to post this.
I have searched google for this, but I'm no where near finding out how
to format a dvdrw disc so as it plays in my dvd recorder.
The recorder doesn't have the facility to format discs, so I thought