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okay, so i've got this problem erasing from any cd-rw. i don't use anything special other than a folder showing the contents of the D drive.
first i get a message saying that "the file is read-only. are you sure you want to deleter?" and i click Yes.
Then i get a message saying "Cannot delete...fi;es on this CD-ROM drive are read only. You cannot copy or move..."
so i go to a file, right click and go to the properties. I deselect read-only and apply. then i get a message saying that "an error occurred applying attrivutes to the file... Access is denied."
What should i do so that i can delete files from my CD-RWs??? Any advice would truly be appreciated.
-emptyitis
Obviously you've never worked with CD-RWs. You can not just delete files off of them. you must erase them, then write again. When you erase it takes off everything on the disc. However if you like to add files to a disc, you can multisession it to add files later. But once again, if you'd like to remove a file, you must erase the CD. If there are existing files you'd like to keep, you have to reburn them.
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Not so. INCD and direct cd allow you to delete a file. Don't know what you are using as a writer to the cd-rw. I don't know if the windows writer allows it.
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Erik may have misunderstood emptyitis, (Goodness. I hope that doesn't mean anything dire. Eat a good meal, man.)
trying to draw a distinction between Delete and Erase. Of course you can delete them, as per says, but you will need DirectCD (or the other program per suggests with which I am unfamiliar) which allows you to treat a CD exactly as you would a hard drive, or a floppy. You can copy to and from, delete, write to, etc., etc. In all cases I'm aware of you shouldn't have any trouble writing to them .
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A side note. Don't keep anything important on them as a primary backup. They are notorious for failing with no warning.
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that and pen [usb] drives. Folks need to understand these tools are meant to be xfer tools not steady storage.
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"Obviously you've never worked with CD-RWs." wtf are you bud? New? Obviously i've worked with them if i got the file on the cd to begin with
anyway! Thank you all for your tips thus far. i just want to get the files off the cd. i can neither delete nor erase from them. I only use windows for burning. I just drag the files i want into the D: window and then click burn. i'm not into sh*tloads of softwares or anything like that. and i don't know what xfer is :-S-emptyitis
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aah, okay, gotcha ;)
well, i *have* tried going through the whole regedt32 thing and making sure the values for the cd-rom and floppy things are at 0 and all of that garbage. it didn't get me anywhere either.
-emptyitis
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i found the problem :)
it turns out that the cd-rom drive wasn't even configured to burn or erase. i right clicked on the drive and went to properties then to the Recording tab and checked the box that said "enable CD recording on this drive"
wish i'd noticed that monthes ago when this first occured
-emptyitis
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per's right again. My CD drive has a format option, as does DirectCD, which you must use if you want the CD to behave like a floppy or hard drive.
I've never understood why they don't make the whole process more uniform and easier.
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Per, ok gotcha. I didn't understand what you were trying to do. But I don't think 'normal' CD burning software has the 'Format' option. INCD 'will' have it, of course.
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InCD is a packet writer. Totally different format. InCD Requires a CDRW disk in order to work. DirectCD, a completing product by Roxio, works with CDR media. When you want to change the structure of the disk you can "move, delete, create new folders and move files to them, etc. Of course with CDR you can't really do any of those things. The program simply tags the files to not show, or move to where you want them. This is very convienient. I have a burner dedicated to Direct CD. Anytime I have something to archive I drag and drop it on the icon. Occasionally I go and cleanup the disk. This has quite a bit of overhead so you get less than the 700MBs of storage. Can be substancially less. I feel that being able to oranise the disk just like you would a HD is worth some wasted space. InCD works the same way but requires CDRW. I'm cheap so I use DirectCD. When you are finished with a disk you need to close the disk. Prior to that the only place the disk can be read is the machine it was burned on. This is what makes the files vulnerable. All you need to do is when you drag some important files over, eject the disk afterward and the program will by default, make the disk readable elsewhere. Placing raw data on a CDR or god forbid a DVDR makes it too difficult to find the data again.
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