Guest Eric Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should I do?
Guest Big_Al Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Eric wrote: > I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm > using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should > I do? What program are you using to write to it?
Guest Eric Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write windows explorer - cut & paste "Big_Al" wrote: > Eric wrote: > > I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm > > using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should > > I do? > > What program are you using to write to it? >
Guest JS Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write CD burners have two lasers, one to read and the other to burn/write data. It's possible that the laser used to write data to a CD has gone bad. JS "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EB8820F1-3599-41F6-8033-EA92EC085612@microsoft.com... > I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm > using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What > should > I do?
Guest Big_Al Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Eric wrote: > windows explorer - cut & paste > > "Big_Al" wrote: > >> Eric wrote: >>> I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm >>> using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should >>> I do? >> What program are you using to write to it? >> Get a 3rd party program like CDBurnerXP, Nero, Roxio, etc. Trying to write with XP is like doing your own brain surgery. CDBurnerXP is just one of many freeware programs. I like Nero. Most drives and pre-installed OS's come with some CD Burning Software. You might already have something like Sonic or Nero installed.
Guest PD43 Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Eric <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >windows explorer - cut & paste Cannot do that with XP's native burner. You need to burn it like you'd burn a data disc.
Guest Eric Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Thanks BIG AL! It worked great. I had Nero already installed and never used it. I was used to cutting & pasting it and that's the only way I knew to do it. I'm not sure why I can't do it that way but now I know differently. "Big_Al" wrote: > Eric wrote: > > windows explorer - cut & paste > > > > "Big_Al" wrote: > > > >> Eric wrote: > >>> I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm > >>> using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should > >>> I do? > >> What program are you using to write to it? > >> > Get a 3rd party program like CDBurnerXP, Nero, Roxio, etc. > Trying to write with XP is like doing your own brain surgery. > CDBurnerXP is just one of many freeware programs. I like Nero. > Most drives and pre-installed OS's come with some CD Burning Software. > You might already have something like Sonic or Nero installed. >
Guest Big_Al Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Eric wrote: > Thanks BIG AL! It worked great. > > I had Nero already installed and never used it. I was used to cutting & > pasting it and that's the only way I knew to do it. I'm not sure why I can't > do it that way but now I know differently. > > "Big_Al" wrote: > >> Eric wrote: >>> windows explorer - cut & paste >>> >>> "Big_Al" wrote: >>> >>>> Eric wrote: >>>>> I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm >>>>> using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should >>>>> I do? >>>> What program are you using to write to it? >>>> >> Get a 3rd party program like CDBurnerXP, Nero, Roxio, etc. >> Trying to write with XP is like doing your own brain surgery. >> CDBurnerXP is just one of many freeware programs. I like Nero. >> Most drives and pre-installed OS's come with some CD Burning Software. >> You might already have something like Sonic or Nero installed. >> Most conversation on these NG's suggests you are not the only person having this issue. If you have Nero, your worst issue is the learning curve. Have fun.
Guest PD43 Posted June 16, 2008 Posted June 16, 2008 Re: CD writer wont write Eric <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >Thanks BIG AL! It worked great. > >I had Nero already installed and never used it. I was used to cutting & >pasting it and that's the only way I knew to do it. I'm not sure why I can't >do it that way but now I know differently. If you have Nero, then you have InCD... a subset of Nero that allows you to cut and paste. Check it out.
Guest ManyBeers Posted June 17, 2008 Posted June 17, 2008 RE: CD writer wont write "Eric" wrote: > I'm not able to write to my CD drive but I can view and read from it. I'm > using WIN XP. I ran trouble shoot and it says everything is OK. What should > I do? Right click the drive select properties,click the recording tab and be sure "Enable cd recording for this drive is checked". I had the same thing happen to me once and somehow that check box got unchecked. Windows cannot write to cd if that box is unchecked but other software can.
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