Restore DVD-RW's RW capability after a burn with iDVD

I recently burned a very simple video from an iMovie project onto a DVD-RW with iDVD for a class project. The DVD-RW had a few files on it that I transferred to my hard drive so that I could temporarily use the DVD for the video. iDVD deleted all of the files at my request to make a disc able to be read by a regular DVD player.
Everything worked fine until I tried to delete the video from the DVD-RW and restore the files I originally had on it. I attempted to move all of the information I had burned onto the DVD to the trash, only to discover that the folder "VIDEO_TS" was read only. Further the entire DVD had been changed to "Read only." Thus, it seems that burning the movie from iMovie onto the DVD-RW by means of iDVD somehow altered my DVD from a DVD-RW to a DVD-R.
I simply want to restore my DVD-RW's Re-Writing capabilities. Is there anyway to do this?

Q: I simply want to restore my DVD-RW's Re-Writing capabilities. Is there anyway to do this?
A: Yes, there is a way. Maybe even a couple of ways at least. You can use apple's disc utility (applications > utilities > disc utility > erase). Roxio Toast will also work to erase DVD-RW.

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i have a big problem during burning a dvd of a presentation of pictures from iphoto by idvd.
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I never had this kind of problem previously,so i don't konw what's going on!
I am really worrie about it(i tried to change label of dvd,and i have 125 Gb free in my mac)
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alessandro

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Problem: No audio on dvd burned with iDvd
What happened: Created movie in iMovie (audio and video fine). Shared to iDvd (audio and video fine on playback). Burned Dvd. No audio on dvd but video is fine.
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Just a simple question:is it possible to play the dvds I created with idvd in quicktime? and if so, how?
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Try download a PE system and get in there and run an WIM tool to install windows to C
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