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Name: compgirl
Date: September 28, 2009 at 12:09:47 Pacific
OS: Windows 98
Product: Dell /
Subcategory: Hard Drives
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I'm trying to get all my pictures off a very old computer. It has a Creative CDRW that I know I used in the past to copy pictures to a CD-R. Now when I try to copy them it says, "D: is not accessible, . .the device is not ready." What does this mean?



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Name: RTAdams89
Date: September 28, 2009 at 12:14:41 Pacific
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It means there is either not a disk in the drive, or you are trying to open a blank disk. You need to use a disk burning program like CDBurnerXP, Roxio, or similar.

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Response Number 2
Name: l0ngsh0t
Date: September 28, 2009 at 12:16:04 Pacific
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If it is a cd-rw drive, it usually means one of the following:

1. There is no media in the drive.
2. The media in the drive is unusable.
3. The drive is damaged.


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Response Number 3
Name: compgirl
Date: September 29, 2009 at 10:04:05 Pacific
Reply:

The cd-r is brand new. I tried to use Nero but I can't get the exact pictures I want, so I'm using Picture Package, that is what I used in the past and it worked like a charm!


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