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Jack Rich

I want to use my CD burner to back up excel. I insert the
CD and go through all the steps of the wizard, drag excel
over to the CD icon and then I get the message that "this
medium is not writeable". "Please insert writeable
medium". The CD is ejected and I must get a brand new CD
before it will work. My policy is to back up the excel
folder each month and I want to write over the previous
month data. It works for word and access by not excel.
And I don't know how to clean off the CD so it is like a
new one. Any help out there?
 
Jack,

You can only overwrite a rewritable CD.
Are you certain this is a rewritable CD (CD-RW) and not just a CD-R.

If it's a rewritable one then your CD writer software will allow you to
Format it.
(Clear out all the old data, so it's ready to be written to again.).

If it's not a rewriteable CD and you no longer need the data, you've got
yourself a new, shiny coaster!!

HTH
Henry
 
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