Re: Free Space on CDRoms

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From: Herb Fritatta (Herb_at_dontspam.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:21:03 -0500

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

> The cdroms are read/write type and did work before SP2,
> now I can't write to cds because they show full.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>This should have happened pre-sp2 as well. It does that
>
> because usually
>
>>CD-ROMS are read only when factory made. As long as you
>
> know how much is on
>
>>there, and how much it holds, it should still let you
>
> write to it.
>
>>"Curt Stier" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>After installing SP2, when using my computer and
>>>properties of a cdrom drive, the cd shows no free disk
>>>space. There is very little used space on the cd, so
>>>there should be lots of free space.
>>>
>>
>>.
>>
There's no such thing as a writable CD-ROM.