Rick -
I suspect that it may be a hardware problem with your drive.
If you have another drive available (a USB-attached CD/DVD-RW drive would
make this test easy), I would connect it to your PC and try copying a file
to it. This would prove whether or not it is an M$ OS problem.
- sjl
<Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been fighting this one for a while off and on without any success.
For a reason unknown to me I can no longer write to CD/DVD-RW media as if it
was a disk drive. In the past I have used CD's for Quicken backups, image
and video backup, and other miscellaneous save or copy operations. Some
time ago, I don't remember when exactly, I started getting errors that the
disk is full. When I tried to remove existing files I was told the disk is
read only and I can't delete anything on it. I inserted a new disk and it
thinks that is full also. The option to erase or format the disk is not
available to me.
This past week I updated to service pack 3 of XP Pro in case I had corrupted
some part of the OS. That didn't help. I found an entry on the MS site
that said this is a known problem with XP and to use third party software.
I am using Roxio CD/DVD Creator which has Drag-To-Disk. I have been using
Drag-To-Disk for years I believe and purchased the current version of the
software when the issues started to eliminate outdated software as the
issue. It isn't working either.
Has anyone seen anything like this before?
Rick Chevalier
midrange.com
