HELP! Read Only status on Writable CD

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Sorry if this question has been answered recently. I read the post "CD
Writing Wizard" and went to the links Wes provided. Unfortunately, it
didn't help. Thanks anyway Wes.

A little background info:
I have a Sony CD-RW disk drive and when I copy files (the CD Writing Wizard
comes up) to the disk they only come up as 'Read Only" in Word. Another
file is asking me for file conversion when trying to open it. These files
are just simple 25 KB letters done in Word.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to save
a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make changes and
save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Mind you, the drive came with Nero and InCD... that's an idiot proof packet
writing software (I do need idiot proof!). Nero was not letting me click on
InCD and after reading the FAQ I realized the InCD cannot work with "CD
Writing Wizard" and Roxio, which is the software for the CD Writing Wizard!

So I uninstalled Nero and I am still having the same problem. The Sony
drive is compatible.

I appreciate any help I can get!

Thanks,
Silvermoon

act found out that

I must be missing something here because I thought



and as I am having this
problem with Word I thought I would address it here. If this question is
not appropriate here, I apologize, and would anyone know where I can go to
ask this question.

I have a new, blank, rewritable CD-RW disc and I managed to save a folder on
it with a file. Now if I open the file and make changes and try to save it
to the disk I get the error, "Word cannot save or create this file. Make
sure the disk that you want to save the file on is not full, write
protected, or damaged". The file is only 26KB on a brand new, empty disk.

I know I can be ignorant about these things, but I thought I would be able
to use my rewritable cd drive like a floppy disk drive... to be able to save
a file, remove the disk, go back into the file on the disk, make changes and
save again, as we all have been doing with floppys for years.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks. I appreciate any help I can get.
Silvermoon



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