Re: HELP! Read Only status on Writable CD

"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

It does not matter what program you used to burn the CD.

All files and folders on CDs are Read-only. Copy your file(s) to your hard
drive first, make your changes, then send them back to the CD.

If you have problems with the Read-only attribute on the file(s) that you
copy from the CD to the hard drive, see below.

This problem is as close to what is happening to me as I could find to
attach my posting to.

I am creating rewritable CDs using Ahead InCD, as the other poster did. I
have done this successfully for two years, with my desktop computer (running
XP Pro, but recently blew up) and my old laptop (running Win98). I simply
drag and drop the file folders I want to transfer to the CDRW disk.

Doing this saved my files from being lost when I recently contracted a
trojan so powerful, I could not get rid of it. It propagated faster than I
could run routines to get rid of it. This trojan was killing my desktop
computer, so I created a bunch of rewritable disks and started loading my
data files onto this virtual lifeboat.

There was absolutely no problem doing this. The files easily transfered
between the two computers. And 10 days ago, I got a new computer--a Lenovo
running Win XP Home--and I can also transfer my files to this computer.

However, the trouble begins when I try to transfer folders and files to a
rewritable disk on my NEW computer, with the new OS. I can describe what
happens, but you'll have to bear with me and my terminology, as I am in no
mood to replicate it right now, and I believe you will understand me,
regardless.

It won't copy the files. It creates a ghost of a file or folder, does not
write to the disk, then offers to burn these folders and files to the disk.
Since the disk is already formatted, Win XP Home cannot succeed in "burning"
the files to the CDRW.

I don't want to "burn" these files. I simply want to do what I have always
been able to do: drag and drop.

In the past, this transfer also worked with the "Copy to" or "Move to"
function under Edit.

Now it doesn't work, and this is a huge pain in my posterior region.

Also, tagging onto the "Read Only" theme, after I format a rewritable disk
with Ahead InCD, Windows Explorer claims it is full. It gives me the little
icon showing that all the disk space is taken up, and 0Kb remain. What is up
with this?

I am not willing to write new lines of code or whatever to my registry file,
so don't suggest that to me as a fix. I will not mess with the inner workings
of my OS. It would be too easy for me to make a mistake. This has happened to
me before and my computer stopped booting entirlely. Since my floppy drive
didn't work, I had to take it to a repair person and have it fixed--very
expensively.

There should be an easy fix for this, and if some kind of update or
correction needs to be made, there should be a downloadable file I can get.

diane

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