Since I have installed XP everytime I try to write to a
CD it tells me I need to insert a writable cd. I bought
a new drive thinking my cdrw drive went bad. I installed
a new cdrw drive and I receive the same message when I
try to write to a disk. Everything else from both drives
work. They play music and I can install programs from
cd's. It just does not recognize it has a rewritable cd
in the drive when it does. I have tried several
different types of cd's too.

Help Please

If I'm not mistaken, a re-writable cd has to be formatted first. Did you
format first?

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Curt.
"Jason Lewis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Since I have installed XP everytime I try to write to a
> CD it tells me I need to insert a writable cd. I bought
> a new drive thinking my cdrw drive went bad. I installed
> a new cdrw drive and I receive the same message when I
> try to write to a disk. Everything else from both drives
> work. They play music and I can install programs from
> cd's. It just does not recognize it has a rewritable cd
> in the drive when it does. I have tried several
> different types of cd's too.
>
> Help Please

He said he was trying to "write" his cdrw. As you probably know, write and
burn are sometimes used inter-changeably when referring to cdrw's. I took it
to mean attempted packet-writing was involved. As to the OP not seeing the
disk, the same happened to me a couple of years ago because I had not
formatted the disk.
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Curt.

"Wislu Plethora" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >If I'm not mistaken, a re-writable cd has to be formatted
> first. Did you
> >format first?
> >
> >--
>
> 1) CD-RWs do not have to be formatted unless packet-writing
> is intended.
>
> 2) How can the OP format a disk that the system doesn't
> see?