My sister uses the Windows XP burning program to copy photos to cd. Recently her burner started to report all open discs as read-only and won't let her burn her photos to disc. The CD-R/RW drive recognizes the disc as read-only and will open her files and photos but will not let her add photos to the disc. Any ideas what could have happened to cause this? Thinking that perhaps the burner was bad, we installed an external USB CD-R/RW drive and the same thing happens.
We also tried disabling the burner we thought was bad and only enabling the external we knew was good. When that didn't work we tried reinstalling Microsoft Picture It! and tried using that. Then we tried installing HP DLA but when we checked in device manager to make sure DLA was enabled there was no DLA tab for that burner. And no format option when we right-clicked on the burner icon in My Computer.
Just to be sure you can still record to the drive. 1.Click Start, and then click My Computer. 2.Right-click the CD-R drive or the CD-RW drive, click Properties, and then look for the Recording tab. If you dont have a recording tab then you are like me. I lost XP's facility to drag and drop after I installed Nero. Been trying for a year to get it back If you do have the recording tab, open it and verify that the drive is writeable.
She does have the Recording Tab. And the drive is writeable. I had the problem with Nero a while back too. I found out that if you install InCD with Nero it will cause a lot of problems. I had to completely uninstall Nero and start again, but without installing InCD. After that Nero worked fine. My sister did not have Nero installed at all when her problem started.
XP, dontcha love it. She's better off than me. Could look at: Control Panel/Admin.Tools/Services and see if Imapi CD-Burning is turned on.
attar Thanks, but she checked and the IMAPI CD-Burning is turned on, so that's not the problem. Keep them coming.
Just to be clear, Sis can take a blank cd-r disk, drag and drop files no problem. XP writes to the disk. She can open and view the files but is not alowed to add files to the disk? Any chance she has Roxio installed.It has 'DirectCd' which causes problems too. She started having the problem 'recently', how about a system restore back to before the first occurrence?
@attar She just put a new blank Sony cd-rw disc into the drive. It is 700/80/1x2x4x. Format D-HPDLA showed up with a statement that said "The media you have inserted is read only. Please check to be sure this disc is compatable with your recorder". ????? She can open and view the files on discs she recorded before but it will not let her add to them. It shows them as read only. Shows new blank disks as read only. She had no Roxio and no other programs. She used Windows XP only to record. She has tried System Restore several times going further back than when the problem started. Thanks for hanging in there.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316529/ I know this is near the bottom of the barrel, but if you could look at the drive type in the registry (SB 2 for CD-RW) then it eliminates one more source of trouble. If you installed another burner previously and it had the same problem then it is unlikely that two drives would have the same registry error, however the entry may still be in the registry and you could compare.It would be in a separate volume inside the 'drives' folder of the registry. Even better if you looked in your PC to compare entries as to drive type. If you do and one of yours happens to be a DVD burner let me know the "drive type" (1,2 or 3) in your entry.
