HELP! Read Only status on Writable CD

[Silvermoon]

Sorry if this question has been answered recently. I read the post "CD
Writing Wizard" and went to the links Wes provided. Unfortunately, it
didn't help. Thanks anyway Wes.

A little background info:
I have a Sony CD-RW disk drive and when I copy files (the CD Writing Wizard
comes up) to the disk they only come up as 'Read Only" in Word. Another
file is asking me for file conversion when trying to open it. These files
are just simple 25 KB letters done in Word.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to save
a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make changes and
save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Mind you, the drive came with Nero and InCD... that's an idiot proof packet
writing software (I do need idiot proof!). Nero was not letting me click on
InCD and after reading the FAQ I realized the InCD cannot work with "CD
Writing Wizard" and Roxio, which is the software for the CD Writing Wizard!

So I uninstalled Nero and I am still having the same problem. The Sony
drive is compatible.

I appreciate any help I can get!

Thanks,
Silvermoon

act found out that

I must be missing something here because I thought



and as I am having this
problem with Word I thought I would address it here. If this question is
not appropriate here, I apologize, and would anyone know where I can go to
ask this question.

I have a new, blank, rewritable CD-RW disc and I managed to save a folder on
it with a file. Now if I open the file and make changes and try to save it
to the disk I get the error, "Word cannot save or create this file. Make
sure the disk that you want to save the file on is not full, write
protected, or damaged". The file is only 26KB on a brand new, empty disk.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to save
a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make changes and
save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks. I appreciate any help I can get.
Silvermoon

 

[Wesley Vogel]

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

Read-only means that you cannot make any changes to the files or if you do
make changes, the changes are not saved. You can look, but you cannot
touch. ;-)

It does not matter what program you used to burn the CD.

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

If you have problems with the Read-only attribute on the file(s) that you
copy from the CD to the hard drive, see below.

<quote>
SYMPTOMS
When you try to save a file in that is from one of the programs that are
listed in the "Applies to" section to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive, the file
is not saved. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Incorrect function.

When you click OK in the error message, you receive the following error
message:

You do not have access to the folder 'drive:\'. See your administrator for
access to this folder.

....you must save the file to the hard disk drive, and then use the CD-ROM
recording program to burn the file to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive.
<quote>
from...
You receive an "Incorrect function" error message when you try to save a
file from an Office program to a CD-RW or a DVD/CD-RW drive
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905431

<quote>
Other programs such as Microsoft Word do allow you to save to a writable
CD-ROM drive. If you try to save to a non-writable CD-ROM drive from one of
these programs you will get an error such as:

Cannot save <filename>. The folder is marked 'Read Only'.

<quote>
from...
PIP: Cannot Save to Writable CD
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184460

CD Read-only

Files saved to CD are automatically listed as Read-only. When they are
restored to a hard drive they may remain Read-only.

Locate the files through My Computer or Windows Explorer.

Highlight the file or group of files | Right click the file or group of
files | Properties | Uncheck the Read-only box found in Attributes | Click
Apply | Click OK

See also...
HOW TO: Remove the Read-Only Attribute While You Copy Files from a CD-ROM in
Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323002

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Guest]

Does the drive support "MRW"

 

[Silvermoon]

Thank you Wes! Sorry it took me a while to reply.

I told you I was ignorant! I thought I could save directly to the disk
instead of saving it to the hard drive and then the disk. That was where I
thought something was wrong.

Thanks again... what a relief!

Silvermoon
(I'm replying with the rest of the post in case someone else can use this
info)

 

[Silvermoon]

Does the drive support "MRW"

Yes it goes. Thanks.

SIlvermoon

 

[Guest]

It does not matter what program you used to burn the CD.

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

If you have problems with the Read-only attribute on the file(s) that you
copy from the CD to the hard drive, see below.

This problem is as close to what is happening to me as I could find to
attach my posting to.

I am creating rewritable CDs using Ahead InCD, as the other poster did. I
have done this successfully for two years, with my desktop computer (running
XP Pro, but recently blew up) and my old laptop (running Win98). I simply
drag and drop the file folders I want to transfer to the CDRW disk.

Doing this saved my files from being lost when I recently contracted a
trojan so powerful, I could not get rid of it. It propagated faster than I
could run routines to get rid of it. This trojan was killing my desktop
computer, so I created a bunch of rewritable disks and started loading my
data files onto this virtual lifeboat.

There was absolutely no problem doing this. The files easily transfered
between the two computers. And 10 days ago, I got a new computer--a Lenovo
running Win XP Home--and I can also transfer my files to this computer.

However, the trouble begins when I try to transfer folders and files to a
rewritable disk on my NEW computer, with the new OS. I can describe what
happens, but you'll have to bear with me and my terminology, as I am in no
mood to replicate it right now, and I believe you will understand me,
regardless.

It won't copy the files. It creates a ghost of a file or folder, does not
write to the disk, then offers to burn these folders and files to the disk.
Since the disk is already formatted, Win XP Home cannot succeed in "burning"
the files to the CDRW.

I don't want to "burn" these files. I simply want to do what I have always
been able to do: drag and drop.

In the past, this transfer also worked with the "Copy to" or "Move to"
function under Edit.

Now it doesn't work, and this is a huge pain in my posterior region.

Also, tagging onto the "Read Only" theme, after I format a rewritable disk
with Ahead InCD, Windows Explorer claims it is full. It gives me the little
icon showing that all the disk space is taken up, and 0Kb remain. What is up
with this?

I am not willing to write new lines of code or whatever to my registry file,
so don't suggest that to me as a fix. I will not mess with the inner workings
of my OS. It would be too easy for me to make a mistake. This has happened to
me before and my computer stopped booting entirlely. Since my floppy drive
didn't work, I had to take it to a repair person and have it fixed--very
expensively.

There should be an easy fix for this, and if some kind of update or
correction needs to be made, there should be a downloadable file I can get.

diane

 

[Jerry]

You need to have Inhead CD or another packet writing program on your
new PC. That capability is not built into Windows XP. Windows XP
built-in CD writing is only CD burning. INCD is part of Nero's suite
avaialable from www.nero.com or in many retail stores.

Jerry

 

[Guest]

You need to have Inhead CD or another packet writing program on your
new PC. That capability is not built into Windows XP. Windows XP
built-in CD writing is only CD burning. INCD is part of Nero's suite
avaialable from www.nero.com or in many retail stores.

It's "Ahead InCD," and I do have it installed, and I am using it, which I
already mentioned twice in my posting asking for help.

I do not want to use any Microsoft application to burn CDs. I vastly prefer
Nero to everything else I've used. But as I already mentioned, WinXP Home
and/or WMP is not recognizing my disk as rewritable... oh, I'm not going to
explain it again. I already explained it. See below.

diane

 

[joseph2k]

It's "Ahead InCD," and I do have it installed, and I am using it, which I
already mentioned twice in my posting asking for help.

I do not want to use any Microsoft application to burn CDs. I vastly
prefer Nero to everything else I've used. But as I already mentioned,
WinXP Home and/or WMP is not recognizing my disk as rewritable... oh, I'm
not going to explain it again. I already explained it. See below.

diane

IIRC there was an old Adaptec (now Roxio i think) program that made a CD-rw
act like a 600MB floppy (DirectCD i think). It was not compatible with
much else. Nor has anyone really duplicated it. Speeds were comparable to
floppy as well. There is no current equivalent AFAIK. Besides, what is so
bad about using a few slices of CD-R once a week and one multisession CD-R
for one session a day.

 

[Guest]

IIRC there was an old Adaptec (now Roxio i think) program that made a CD-rw
act like a 600MB floppy (DirectCD i think). It was not compatible with
much else. Nor has anyone really duplicated it. Speeds were comparable to
floppy as well. There is no current equivalent AFAIK. Besides, what is so
bad about using a few slices of CD-R once a week and one multisession CD-R
for one session a day.

This has nothing to do with what I asked. I'm already creating rewritable
CDRWs with Ahead InCD.

I don't use CDRs. I cannot afford to waste media like that. I only use CDRWs.

Where are all the Microsoft experts who supposedly monitor these forums? I
need a professional answer.

diane

 

[Enkidu]

This has nothing to do with what I asked. I'm already creating rewritable
CDRWs with Ahead InCD.

I don't use CDRs. I cannot afford to waste media like that. I only use CDRWs.

Where are all the Microsoft experts who supposedly monitor these forums? I
need a professional answer.

When you put your CD-RW into the machine, does the tray icon change from
red to green as it is supposed to?

I did not catch the start of this thread, so I believe that you might
have said that you can use the CD-RW (as a big floppy) but you can't
drag and drop to it?

If not, look at this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316529/en-us

If so, the problem is with 'drag and drop' not with packet writing. Can
you get the latest version of In-CD?

Another possibility is that the CD-RW is fully used. I read somewhere
(and don't take this for gospel) that when a CD-RW rewrites a file it
does it in a different place on the CD-RW. It does NOT reclaim the space
used by the original copy.

The solution is to copy all the files to another CD-RW and re-initialise
the original CD-RW. In any case this would be a good test - copy all the
files to another CD-RW and see if you can drag and drop to the new one.

(As I said - I am not sure about this).

Cheers,

Cliff