Guest Imageman Posted October 9, 2008 Posted October 9, 2008 Vista 64bit / XP Professional SP3 I don't remember this being a problem in the past, but at the moment I can't change the attributes of, or get rid of 'Read Only' files on my CD-RW's. I haven't succeeded deleting, erasing or formatting with Vista or XP OS, or with Nero. Is there a way, or a utility to do this? Thanks for your help, IM
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted October 10, 2008 Posted October 10, 2008 Re: How delete 'Read Only' files from CD-RW's "Imageman" <Imageman@monkeybusiness.net> wrote in message news:nqGdnaWyI5lisXPVnZ2dnUVZ_h-dnZ2d@giganews.com... > Vista 64bit / XP Professional SP3 > > > I don't remember this being a problem in the past, but at the moment I > can't change the attributes of, or get rid of 'Read Only' files on my > CD-RW's. > If the CD-RWs have been written using conventional writing utilities (including XP's built in utility) in CDFS format, then this is correct behaviour. Individual files cannot be altered or deleted (including attributes). The only way of deleting anything is to completely erase the whole disk. > I haven't succeeded deleting, erasing or formatting with Vista or XP OS, > or with Nero. Is there a way, or a utility to do this? Thanks for your > help, IM The option to erase a CD-RW should be offered in the 'System Tasks' pane at the left hand side of the folder display whenever a non blank CD-RW is inserted (in XP) or on the tool bar near the top (in Vista). Nero in all its guises also offers the option to erase a disc on its editing screen (the one where you add the files for burning). Nero will also offer you the opportunity to erase the disc if you try to write to a non empty disc (mainly because it doesn't support multisession writing unless you import an existing project image first). If the CD-RW has been written using a Packet Writing utility (such as Nero's In-CD) then it is treated much like any other disc drive and files can be individually erased and attributes changed. I don't think yours is written this way though.
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