XP Home says "cannot access folder, contact administrator" trying to copy to CD

[Morbius]

I'm posting this for a family member who owns XP Home and
has a problem...

He's trying to copy files to a CD-R, by just doing
a "Save" or "Save As" from within a program (like MS
Word, Excel, Photoshop, etc.) and then picking the CD
drive as the destination.

To tell the truth, I didn't even realize this was
possible, as I've always used something like EasyCD
Creator for putting files on CD. But I tried it myself,
and sure enough, when you select the CD drive, it pops up
a little "balloon" notice from the System Tray saying to
click here to see the files you've asked to have written
to a CD. If you click there, you see a file list, and
you can select File>Burn to CD, or something like that,
and it send files to the CD.

Well, on his machine, as soon as he selects the CD drive
as the destination from the program he has the file open
in, he gets a dialog that says something like "Cannot
Access Folder E:\. Contact your administrator....", or
something similar.

He swears this was working fine up until about two or
three weeks ago. But since that time, XP Home simply
will NOT allow him to send files to a CD this way.

The only two accounts on his machine, other than the
guest account, both are listed as Computer Administrator,
so I would think he has full priveleges on this.

Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks,
Cliff

 

[Morbius]

Any possibility he switched between CD-R and CD-RW media
during that time?

Nope...using same CD-R discs he claims he has always used
to do this.

 

[Kelly]

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308421