Erasability in an overcoated organic dye‐binder medium has been demonstrated. With thin (∼50 nm) overcoats on such media, a laser pulse forms a pit in the dye‐binder layer, while the overcoat forms a dome over the pit. Information is erased by heating the rim material with low laser power which fills the recorded pit. During recording into a thickly (∼300 nm) overcoated recording medium, material flow occurs from the trailing edge towards the leading edge of the mark. Results of modeling, observations of pit morphology, evidence of long‐term stability, and measurements of optical disk performance are presented for thinly and thickly overcoated erasable organic dye‐binder layers.