A CD-R question

[Guest]

I have a CD in my writer that is enabled to 'share' and is definitely
readable and writable. However I tried to add a small file to it this
morning to transfer from my lap to my desktop and it said "the cd is not
writable or is full".
I know its writable, I've written to it several times. As far as the "full"
is concerned I thought that it would write over some files and by that I mean
it would prompt me to pick some files to delete to make way for the new file?
If I try to delete some files the cd wizard says that files may be written
over but not deleted. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks
Catt

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a CD in my writer that is enabled to 'share' and is definitely
readable and writable. However I tried to add a small file to it this
morning to transfer from my lap to my desktop and it said "the cd is
not writable or is full".
I know its writable, I've written to it several times. As far as the
"full" is concerned I thought that it would write over some files and
by that I mean it would prompt me to pick some files to delete to
make way for the new file? If I try to delete some files the cd
wizard says that files may be written over but not deleted. Can
someone explain this to me? Thanks

It's a CD-RW and you have no Packet Writing software installed?
Therefore, it's delete and write or nothing.

Read more on this:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Only if you have a CD-RW drive and a CD-RW disk can you
delete files, providing you also have a third-party CD recording
program installed such as Nero.
http://ww2.nero.com/us/index.html

Cannot Delete Individual Files from a CD-RW Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294883

Description of CD-R and CD-RW recording in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279157

How To Erase Files From a CD-RW Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306641

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Windows XP - Shell/User
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| I have a CD in my writer that is enabled to 'share' and is definitely
| readable and writable. However I tried to add a small file to it this
| morning to transfer from my lap to my desktop and it said "the cd is not
| writable or is full".
| I know its writable, I've written to it several times. As far as the "full"
| is concerned I thought that it would write over some files and by that I mean
| it would prompt me to pick some files to delete to make way for the new file?
| If I try to delete some files the cd wizard says that files may be written
| over but not deleted. Can someone explain this to me? Thanks
| Catt

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the input.
Referring to Carey Fricsh's comment, it is a CD-R disc and a CD-RW drive.
The files that are on it I placed there by simply using Windows Explorer.
This A.M. I tried to put on a 16Kb file made in FrontPage when I got the
message. I looked at the disc in My Computer and accdg to that its only 20%
full. That being said I figured that something else is wrong and thats why I
posted the question. I kind of understand the diff between the CD-R and the
CD-RW disc but I assumed that it (Windows) would simply over write some
content but thats probably asking too much and the failsafe is built in so
the disc is not simply overwritten.
Referring to Shenen Stanley's, I do have packet writing software on board
but didn't think it was necessary.
From both of your inputs I think I should just use the CD software and take
it from there, still I'm puzzled by the disc only being 20% full.
Thanks for your input.
Catt

 

[Stan Brown]

I have a CD in my writer that is enabled to 'share' and is definitely
readable and writable. However I tried to add a small file to it this
morning to transfer from my lap to my desktop and it said "the cd is not
writable or is full".
I know its writable, I've written to it several times.

At some point did your writing software close the disc. Normall the
native Windows software closes the session, but it's possible to
close the disc meaning that nothing more can be written.

As far as the "full"
is concerned I thought that it would write over some files and by that I mean
it would prompt me to pick some files to delete to make way for the new file?

CD-R = write (any given spot) once. There is no such thing as
overwriting. You get the _appearance_ of overwriting by writing a
new version of a given file and then not including a link to the
earlier version in the new session's TOC. But the old version is
still physically present on the disc.

If you want to overwrite, realy overwrite, you need CR-RW.