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Solve : CD-RW won't write?

Answer» <html><body><p>Hi, <br/><br/>I hope I'm posting in the right place here. I just installed a Samsung <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/cd-236847" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CD">CD</a>-RW Drive on my Windows 2000 Server <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/system-238321" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SYSTEM">SYSTEM</a> (SP4). The drive has the label Compact Disc ReWritable on the front panel, if it matters to anyone.<br/><br/>The drive reads CDs just fine, but it can't write to a CD-R disk with label Compact Disc Recordable on the front panel (I don't have any other discs to try). For example, if I paste an <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/item-770211" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ITEM">ITEM</a> from my hard drive onto the CD icon in Windows Explorer, then the message reads: <strong>D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect Function.</strong><br/><br/>The Windows Device Manager indicates that '<strong>This device is working properly</strong>', so I don't think that this is a hardware problem.<br/><br/>And I'm not convinced that I need burning software like Nero. Isn't there a function within Windows 2000 that can format CDs so they can be burned? And can't I then just drag and drop items onto the CD drive letter?<br/><br/>In any case, no software came with this drive.<br/><br/>I know the error message above is a common problem for some reason, but I've only seen solutions for Windows XP. Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix it in Windows 2000?<br/><br/>Thanks for any suggestions!<br/><br/>P.G.It will read OK but you'll need some sort of software to be able to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/burn-905653" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BURN">BURN</a> anything. I use NERO on XP and use the native XP drag and drop to burn files to CD instead of using NERO's InCD.<br/><br/>You could try DeepBurner which has a freeware version.<br/><br/>FREEWAREThanks for the reply!<br/><br/>When I bought the drive, the (preoccupied with listening to music) <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/sales-25569" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SALES">SALES</a> kid insisted that I don't need any kind of software to burn CDs. I kind of knew that it wouldn't work without it, but I hadn't done any tech work on my PCs in years, so I believed him. Plus, he was the only one in the store. <br/><br/>So I went back today and spoke with another guy. He gave me the Nero disc that was supposed to accompany the drive. I spent so much time this weekend trying to figure out why it didn't work. Now I know.<br/><br/>Thanks for the DeepBurner advice. My next step would've been to get some freeware to solve this.Quote</p><blockquote>Thanks for the reply!<br/><br/>When I bought the drive, the (preoccupied with listening to music) sales kid insisted that I don't need any kind of software to burn CDs. I kind of knew that it wouldn't work without it, but I hadn't done any tech work on my PCs in years, so I believed him. Plus, he was the only one in the store. <br/><br/>So I went back today and spoke with another guy. He gave me the Nero disc that was supposed to accompany the drive. I spent so much time this weekend trying to figure out why it didn't work. Now I know.<br/><br/>Thanks for the DeepBurner advice. My next step would've been to get some freeware to solve this.</blockquote><br/>So that is how the OEM software goes missing.<br/><br/>Glad to hear that you got a good result.</body></html>


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