CD-RW Data

[Chas]

Data entered and updated periodically on CD-RW all of a
sudden changed to "read only" status. I can no longer
update on that data CD-RW. Can any body help?

 

[John Dingley]

Did you close it when you last added something?

Have a look at the properties. If it says there is zero disk space left then
that is what you probably did.

 

[MildBill]

As the other responder said, you may have closed the disc.
However, depending on what software you are using, and how you are using
it, that may not be the case. Assuming you are using Roxio EZCD, and using
Drag+Burn (meaning you formatted the disc and are using it by simply
copying files to it in Explorer), then it is likely that the disc has
become unreliable, and the software has set the disc to be read only, to
protect you from losing data by writing to a bad disc.
Other CD drag and drop software may well do something similar.
If this sounds like what you are doing, then I would advise that you copy
ALL of the data from that CDRW on to your hard drive, remove the read-only
status, then copy it to a new CDRW.

Hope this helps, and, as always, your mileage may vary,

MildBill
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin



While performing brain surgery on (him/her)self,

 

[Alex Nichol]

Data entered and updated periodically on CD-RW all of a
sudden changed to "read only" status. I can no longer
update on that data CD-RW.

Are you using the inbuilt burning? That is not really a CD-RW but a
CD-R method, whereby batches of files are burned as sessions. It only
appears to be updating a file because only the most recent version is
visible. They cannot be deleted individually - all you can do is erase
the disk as a whole, and so are inherently read-only and marked as such.
And the disk will in due course fill up - all the more quic=kly if you
write in small batches as there is a 13 MB overhead each time

See http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm