Re: "drive in use by another application" when burning CD w Nero

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 05:59:07 -0700

VToronto wrote:

> please help. I get the above error message when I try to burn cd using
> Nero 6. I know there are no applications that is using my cd burner.
> Thanks for your help

Go to My Computer and right-click on the icon for your cd-rw drive. Then
click on Advanced and "Disable recording on this drive". Apply and OK
out.

Malke 

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