Re: How to Change CD Read Only Attribute

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/19/04


Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:05:15 +0000

Al Smith wrote:

>I have a CD-RW with one relatively small file that seems to
>have taken up the whole disk. I would like to delete the
>file, but it is a read only file.
>
>How do I change the attribute or how can I delete the file?
>

How did to do the write to disk? If with the inbuilt burning it does
not use a CD-RW technique anyway, and all you can do is erase the disk
as a whole - if you r-click its icon in My Computer, there should be an
'erase CD-RW'

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)


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