CD Recording

[Don]

I am running Windows XP with all the latest Service Packs/Updates installed.
I have been using a CD-RW disk to save financial information for a couple of
years now; I last saved a file to it a month ago. Today, I clicked on Save
As, selected the CD burner drive I have always used, entered the file name
and clicked Save. Up came a message which read, "You do not have permission
to save in this directory. See the administrator to obtain permission." I
tried saving several times using differnet file types (the program I am using
to generate the spreadsheet is Excel 2007) but got the same results. I tried
a second CD-RW drive on this computer and, although I didn't get the same
message, the file was not on the CD after I "saved" it. When I go to My
Computer and place the mouse cursor on the drive/disk, it indicates 0 Free
Space/540 MB. Can someone offer a suggestion?

 

[olfart]

I am running Windows XP with all the latest Service Packs/Updates
installed.
I have been using a CD-RW disk to save financial information for a couple
of
years now; I last saved a file to it a month ago. Today, I clicked on Save
As, selected the CD burner drive I have always used, entered the file name
and clicked Save. Up came a message which read, "You do not have
permission
to save in this directory. See the administrator to obtain permission." I
tried saving several times using differnet file types (the program I am
using
to generate the spreadsheet is Excel 2007) but got the same results. I
tried
a second CD-RW drive on this computer and, although I didn't get the same
message, the file was not on the CD after I "saved" it. When I go to My
Computer and place the mouse cursor on the drive/disk, it indicates 0 Free
Space/540 MB. Can someone offer a suggestion?

First of all...Never...NEVER....use a CDRW to save any information that you
might want to retrieve later. CDRW's are notorious for "losing" data even
while they are sitting on the shelf not being used. Burning to a CDR is the
way to go. You can burn an open CDR and add data to it untill it is full.
CDR's cost only a few cent a piece. To be doubly safe I would burn a second
copy of each and store it away in a safe place (Safe Deposit Bob, Safe,
etc). Or backup to an external drive and burn a copy of that to CDR's. 2
backups are 1000% better than one.

 

[Jonathan Harker]

First of all...Never...NEVER....use a CDRW to save any information that you
might want to retrieve later. CDRW's are notorious for "losing" data even
while they are sitting on the shelf not being used.

Got any recent cite to support that? It might have been true 10 years
ago, but I'm not so sure it is today.

 

[Don]

I will consider your advice in the future. However, do you know how to
overcome the message I received and save to the CD-RW disc?

 

[smlunatick]

First of all...Never...NEVER....use a CDRW to save any information that you
might want to retrieve later. CDRW's are notorious for "losing" data even
while they are sitting on the shelf not being used. Burning to a CDR is the
way to go. You can burn an open CDR and add data to it untill it is full.
CDR's cost only a few cent a piece. To be doubly safe I would burn a second
copy of each and store it away in a safe place (Safe Deposit Bob, Safe,
etc). Or backup to an external drive and burn a copy of that to CDR's. 2
backups are 1000% better than one.

This is not completely true!!! CDRW are very good and reliable. It
is the software used to write to the CDRW media that cause the
problem. Using any "packet-writing" tools, such as Nero's InCD or
Roxio's Drag to Disk (DirectCD,) that renders the "written" CDRW
unusable.

Also, the care of any R(W) media can affect the reliability. Never
store the disk in a "warm" area as the heat will affect the disk.

 

[Mike Torello]

Using any "packet-writing" tools, such as Nero's InCD or
Roxio's Drag to Disk (DirectCD,) that renders the "written" CDRW
unusable.

Cite please.

 

[cavalier]

Cite please.

cavalier wrote ,I feel sorry for you Don,you have asked for help and you have become surrounded by people who have done nothing but critcize you and argue amongst themselves.Sorry I cannot answer your question but might I suggest GOOGLE