Burning CD's

[Stephen R Stanfield]

I am having difficulty burning data on my cd. it says
cd not writable. i have tried CD-RW and regular cd's. I
can save to floppy, but my laptop only has cd port. any
suggestions?

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics:140716

Stephen R Stanfield wrote:
> I am having difficulty burning data on my cd. it says
> cd not writable. i have tried CD-RW and regular cd's. I
> can save to floppy, but my laptop only has cd port. any
> suggestions?

Stephen

Have you tried a CD-R disk? Are you using the built-in XP CD Burning program
or third party software?

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[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Right-click the drive in Windows Explorer, go to the recording tab. Check
the line "enable recording on this drive".

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Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
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"Stephen R Stanfield" > wrote in message
...
> I am having difficulty burning data on my cd. it says
> cd not writable. i have tried CD-RW and regular cd's. I
> can save to floppy, but my laptop only has cd port. any
> suggestions?

[Chris Lanier]

HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues That Occur When You Write Data to a CD-R or
CD-RW Optical Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q324129

"Stephen R Stanfield" > wrote in message
...
> I am having difficulty burning data on my cd. it says
> cd not writable. i have tried CD-RW and regular cd's. I
> can save to floppy, but my laptop only has cd port. any
> suggestions?