Question about XP/CDRW/ and deleting files Please

[Dudley Henriques]

I have a CDRW that I use for backup. It's formatted correctly in Direct CD
and I've been using it for some time with no issues. Suddenly it contains a
file called "non allocatable space" and it shows full blue on the
properties.
My question is not about this directly. I went to delete an empty folder
from the disk and it threw me a window that says I can't remove the folder
because files on this CDROM drive are read only. It also says I can't copy
or move files over to this CDROM.
I tried getting rid of the folder in windows explorer but it wouldn't delete
there either. Can someone please help me understand what's happening here
and why I can't delete anything from this disk. I tried changing the folder
attribute to "archive" but it wouldn't let me do that either! :-)) How do I
deal with this situation??
Many thanks,
Dudley

[John A]

The CD probably needs reformatting. Also try dropping the write speed
to maybe 8x. Since I dropped write speed on my computer a number of
CDRW problems have disappeared.

John A

On Fri, 16 May 2003 10:53:46 -0400, "Dudley Henriques"
> wrote:

>I have a CDRW that I use for backup. It's formatted correctly in Direct CD
>and I've been using it for some time with no issues. Suddenly it contains a
>file called "non allocatable space" and it shows full blue on the
>properties.
>My question is not about this directly. I went to delete an empty folder
>from the disk and it threw me a window that says I can't remove the folder
>because files on this CDROM drive are read only. It also says I can't copy
>or move files over to this CDROM.
>I tried getting rid of the folder in windows explorer but it wouldn't delete
>there either. Can someone please help me understand what's happening here
>and why I can't delete anything from this disk. I tried changing the folder
>attribute to "archive" but it wouldn't let me do that either! :-)) How do I
>deal with this situation??
>Many thanks,
>Dudley
>

[Dudley Henriques]

Thank you.
D
"John A" > wrote in message
...
> The CD probably needs reformatting. Also try dropping the write speed
> to maybe 8x. Since I dropped write speed on my computer a number of
> CDRW problems have disappeared.
>
> John A
>
> On Fri, 16 May 2003 10:53:46 -0400, "Dudley Henriques"
> > wrote:
>
> >I have a CDRW that I use for backup. It's formatted correctly in Direct
CD
> >and I've been using it for some time with no issues. Suddenly it contains
a
> >file called "non allocatable space" and it shows full blue on the
> >properties.
> >My question is not about this directly. I went to delete an empty folder
> >from the disk and it threw me a window that says I can't remove the
folder
> >because files on this CDROM drive are read only. It also says I can't
copy
> >or move files over to this CDROM.
> >I tried getting rid of the folder in windows explorer but it wouldn't
delete
> >there either. Can someone please help me understand what's happening here
> >and why I can't delete anything from this disk. I tried changing the
folder
> >attribute to "archive" but it wouldn't let me do that either! :-)) How do
I
> >deal with this situation??
> >Many thanks,
> >Dudley
> >
>