xp rewriting

[Jerry]

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I formated a cdrw disk on my daughters computer to use as a drag and drop
file. I brought the disk home to my computer and it won't let me write to
the disk. It said write protected. How I make it not write protected? Both
machines are xp home.

 

[Tom]

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"Jerry" <ghandt@highstream.net> wrote in message
news:e1bi2Lg1EHA.1652@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I formated a cdrw disk on my daughters computer to use as a drag and drop
>file. I brought the disk home to my computer and it won't let me write to
>the disk. It said write protected. How I make it not write protected? Both
>machines are xp home.
>

Whatever software you used on your daughter's PC to format that disk, you
will need that same program on your PC to view, or do the same tasks.
Drag-n-Drop is not part of XP (never has been), and only third party
programs do that (ie Drag-n-Drop is the name of a packet writing function
that is part of the newer CDR(W)/DVD writing softwares from Roxio).

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 05:02:42 -0600, "Jerry" <ghandt@highstream.net> wrote:

my 1st thought is that you need to see what the format is. ie: When I upgraded
to XP from win 98, I had plenty of disks formatted with HP's drag and drop
software [directCD]. XP claimed it was incompatible. So much so that just
having the dll on the drive caused havoc. I lost access to a lot of CD's.

You should be able to format a CD with XP. As for that particular CD. I'm
guessing it's seen it's last day unless you take it back to work and see if you
can use it there.

>I formated a cdrw disk on my daughters computer to use as a drag and drop
>file. I brought the disk home to my computer and it won't let me write to
>the disk. It said write protected. How I make it not write protected? Both
>machines are xp home.
>

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