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?

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?

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?
>

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" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:EB8820F1-3599-41F6-8033-(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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?

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.

Eric <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.

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.
>

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.

Eric <(E-Mail Removed)> 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.

"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.