Hello all,

I've gotten good advice here before, hopefully someone
can help me again... I attempted this morning to burn a
data CD with my CD-RW through Windows Explorer (I'm on XP
Home). It burned the first four files, but the rest
wouldn't progress past temporary, they'd just sit there
with greyed out icons, and I'd keep getting an error
message. (When I looked at the contents of the D: drive
in DOS, though, it showed all ten files.)

I eventually gave up and used DeepBurner (great app) to
accomplish the job. However, now, XP still thinks there
are six files to be burned to the D: drive. I get an
alert that they're waiting to be burned during startup.
What's more, when I navigate to the D: drive in Windows
Explorer, I see the temporary files and try to delete
them (using both the menu option on the far left, "Delete
Temporary Files," and by highlighting and hitting the
delete key) but get the following message every time:

Cannot delete CD label: it is being used by another
person or program.

Close any programs that might be using the file and try
again.

Of course, there are no other programs running -- unless
there's something in the background I'm not aware of.
It's REALLY annoying to have to confront these temporary
files every time I turn on my comp -- how can I get rid
of them?

I've followed your directions (basically what I was doing
before! and still nothing, I'm getting the same error
message -- Explorer still thinks that there's another
program/user with the file open, when there (as far as I
know) isn't, unless it's running in the background...
help!!??


>-----Original Message-----
>Formatting your CD-RWs makes the CD available for packet
writing that way
>it works just like another harddrive. Most CD-RWs will
not play music files
>in a
>CD player. Use CD-Rs for creating music CDs. Roxio or
Nero are the top
>applications to burn CDs or create data CDs. To delete
the files to be
>written to CD, go to: Start/My Computer/rightclick your
CD-Rom drive and
>click Open. Rightclick the listings and click Delete.
Go to below URL for
>additonal info:
>
>Active Service - CDR - RW Formatiing
>http://www.activeservice.co.uk/cdr/rwformat.htm
>
>
>"Andrew" wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've gotten good advice here before, hopefully someone
>> can help me again... I attempted this morning to burn
a
>> data CD with my CD-RW through Windows Explorer (I'm on
XP
>> Home). It burned the first four files, but the rest
>> wouldn't progress past temporary, they'd just sit
there
>> with greyed out icons, and I'd keep getting an error
>> message. (When I looked at the contents of the D:
drive
>> in DOS, though, it showed all ten files.)
>>
>> I eventually gave up and used DeepBurner (great app)
to
>> accomplish the job. However, now, XP still thinks
there
>> are six files to be burned to the D: drive. I get an
>> alert that they're waiting to be burned during
startup.
>> What's more, when I navigate to the D: drive in
Windows
>> Explorer, I see the temporary files and try to delete
>> them (using both the menu option on the far
left, "Delete
>> Temporary Files," and by highlighting and hitting the
>> delete key) but get the following message every time:
>>
>> Cannot delete CD label: it is being used by another
>> person or program.
>>
>> Close any programs that might be using the file and
try
>> again.
>>
>> Of course, there are no other programs running --
unless
>> there's something in the background I'm not aware of.
>> It's REALLY annoying to have to confront these
temporary
>> files every time I turn on my comp -- how can I get
rid
>> of them?
>>
>.
>