Cant save to CD ROM

Hi All

trying to sell my old PC so I was trying to put some decent programmes on but for some reason I cant save to the CD. I can play Music from it and open files fron CD but When I try and save to it the drive does not even come up as an option. Any ideas as I don't want to sell it with a fault.

Cheers

Joe

 

A few questions:

What is your OS?

Does device manager correctly ID the drive?

Is the drive listed under My Computer?

This may simply be a Send To issue, I hope...

 

Is the drive a CD-ROM (Read-Only-Memory), or a CD-RW (Read & Write) unit. If it's the former then you can't write to the drive.

 

Do you have a burning program on your computer?

 

Hi Joe,
I have the same problem but with both my cd & dvd drives. I'm running XP Pro.
Can anyone help us?

 

The obvious question is the one asked by Puppywonder, are these CD/DVD RW drives, or just DVD or CD drives. Also what media are you using, CD/DVD R/RW +/-etc.

 

Thanks so much for your reply. All of you.
Yes, both drives are RW drives. More specifically, they are as follows
LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW
SONY CD-RW CRX-320E
The media I am attempting to write to are DVD-R 8X 4.7gb
recordable, blank DVD's. Brand new, never used.
My OS is XP-PRO and to my knowledge, I do not have a burner program installed. Device Manager i.d's both drives as working and enabled. In fact, both drives are reading just fine. Both drives are playing audio, video dvd's & running program/software as they should. But, no writing .
Something else, when trying use the backup wizard, it did not even allow/show these 2 drives as options to copy my files to. The wizard only lists C; (Hard drive) and my 3.5 floppy drive as available media to backup to.
Yes, embarrassing as it may be, I still do have a 3.5 drive onboard
Maybe this is too much info, but i still have'nt found a fix and I really do need, and really do thank everyone for their ongoing support. MajorGeeks Rock!

dmark83

 

A CD-RW CRX-320E well theres one prob. I owned one of these, terrible drive. However, the problem I always had with burning was the burner. Nero, the one I find to be consistantly the best is much more effective than just using XP to burn to a disk, and can pick up media that xp might not recognise. I would sugegst using another brand of disc first and foremost and see if you get the same problem, and installing a burner, there are plenty of free ones floating around if you dont want to buy one. Often some media are just not recognised by some drives esp the CRX-320E.

the backup wizard not recognising the dvds btw might just be because you cant backup to dvd not that it does not work. I cant recall off the top of my head but someone else here will know.