Read Only Files

[Helen]

When I move a "read only" folder from my CD (burner drive)
to my hard drive and delete it, I still have the original
folder on my burner drive. How can I get rid of it?

 

[purplehaz]

Depends on how you burned the cd. If it is a cd-r disk and you burned a data
cd then those files are on the cd forever. Just like a program cd or a music
cd you bought from the store, you can't delete stuff off those.
If you burned in on a cdrw disk and your using the xp burning software, then
all you can do it erase the whole disk at once, not individual
folders/files.
If you want to be able to use a cdrw like a giant floppy disk, then you need
some third party software that does packet writing. With this you can move
folders/files on and off off the cd and delete individual files/folders.
Roxio and nero are the two best for this.

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I move a "read only" folder from my CD (burner drive)
to my hard drive and delete it, I still have the original
folder on my burner drive.

If you burn a CD with the inbuilt system, it does it in stages.
First it copies the files to a holding area of disk, and then when you
say 'burn these files' it burns the whole batch to a CD as a 'session'.
This is not a CD-RW method, and even if you use a CD-RW disk the files
are not erasable - you can only erase the disk as a whole. So a Move to
hard disk does not delete the files from the CD, because it is
physically not possible.