cd drive treated as R/W

[Guest]

I am using an Acer Aspire 5670 with Windows Vista.
When I attempt to access either my builtin DVD Disk or an external one that
I have tried I can only see the following:

'Files ready to be written to the Disk' and a file called Desktop.ini 174
Bytes configuration settings which I cannot open in notepad to view.

I can stop viewing the desktop.ini files by opting not to view hidden files
but I still see the message 'Files ready to be written to the Disk'

I cannot access any of my Cd's or DVD's

The Screen layout contains the following:

Computer DVD RW Drive(E) -MAIN TOOLBAR MENU

Organise Views Burn to Disc -SECOND TOOLBAR MENU

Favourite Links Name Size Type Date modified Location

Drag files to this folder to add them to the disk

Tony Prodger

 

[Guest]

Delete any file that shows in this list of "files to be written..." to clear
the cache. Reboot the computer and try to access the drives again. Make sure
to remove any disks in the drive before rebooting. It sounds like you have a
disk write program running.

 

[Guest]

I tried that Mary with no success.
In my computer the CD Drive has a Red X alongside it and when I put in a CD
I receive all the burning options. The same thing happens when I attach an
external Cd/DVD through a USB connection. This has happened over the past 24
hours but I cannot think of any changes that I have made
thanks

 

[Guest]

Many thanks to all who helped.

The answer was that Acer's Elock program had caused the CD/DVD drives to lock

Tony