unable to write to DVD/CD

[David Weiss Haynes]

I have a Dell 8300 running XP Pro. Unlike Win ME I cannot save directly to
my recordable media. I have a DVD ROM and an NEC 2100a DVD +RW. When
attempting to write to either re-writable DVD's and CD's an error message
states 'access denied'. Additionally, the PC does not recognise that a DVD
is in the NEC drive and shows zero bytes. Most annoying of all, it appears
that I cannot directly save from the net to either removable media. I have
to save to the hard drive first. Anyone, please?

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

| I have a Dell 8300 running XP Pro. Unlike Win ME I cannot save directly
to
| my recordable media. I have a DVD ROM and an NEC 2100a DVD +RW. When
| attempting to write to either re-writable DVD's and CD's an error message
| states 'access denied'. Additionally, the PC does not recognise that a
DVD
| is in the NEC drive and shows zero bytes. Most annoying of all, it
appears
| that I cannot directly save from the net to either removable media. I
have
| to save to the hard drive first. Anyone, please?
|

Were you able to successfully burn DVDs or CDs in the past on the same
machine? If you were saving directly to optical disks with ME it was
because packet-writing software was installed. ME had/has no native CD
burning capability, and XP has no native DVD burning capability.