CD/RW not recordable

I have been having trouble with CD/RW disks not being re-recordable. I can
format them and record to them until I remove them. When I put them back in
the drive, they display as CD-ROM only and no available space (with only 20MB
recorded). Earlier RW disks can be read and format shows as RW, but when I
try to record to them I get a message that the drive is not accessible. I
have tried several different disks (its a good thing I bought them in bulk
). I have the same problem with my laptop and my desktop and about the only
thing the two have in common is they are both running XP and I have done the
automatic updates on them. I don't know exactly when this happened - it's
been awhile and I haven't had time to deal with it - and doing a System
Restore back that far is out of the question. Also I do remember when I used
to format my RW disks there was an option of making the disk like a removable
hard drive to save things directly to it, but I don't see an option like that
now when I format. Does anyone know how I can make my drives RW-able again? I
would really appreciate any help I can get.

Thank you,
--
Walli

Try disabling your security program. This can cause this problems with some
DVD burning programs. Then install an RXfilter fix. Info and links below.

Or there can be problems due to codec conflicts. If you have Windows Media
Center don't install the program CODEC All in One 6. It not only causes DVD
problems, but interferes with recognition of the tuner. It can cause the
program not to work and the attempt to solve the problems causes other
problems, mostly ending in drive reformats.


Here is the fix tas described on the Roxio site.
After installing Easy Media Creator 8, you may be unable to read CDs or DVDs

This issue appears to be caused by a conflict between a Roxio feature called
RXFilter and certain anti-virus software. If you have this issue, you can
correct it by disabling RXFilter. RXFilter lets you access data on compressed
or encrypted disc sets directly from Windows Explorer instead of having to
use Roxio Retrieve. After disabling RXFilter, you will need to use Roxio
Retrieve instead to read compressed or encrypted data discs created in
Creator Classic.

To disable RXFilter, download and run this utility:
http://tools.roxio.com/support/c8/rx/rxfix.exe

To re-enable RXFilter, download and run this utility:
http://tools.roxio.com/support/c8/rx/rxenabler.exe

After either of these utilities is run, you must restart your computer for
the changes to take effect.



"Walli" wrote:

> I have been having trouble with CD/RW disks not being re-recordable. I can
> format them and record to them until I remove them. When I put them back in
> the drive, they display as CD-ROM only and no available space (with only 20MB
> recorded). Earlier RW disks can be read and format shows as RW, but when I
> try to record to them I get a message that the drive is not accessible. I
> have tried several different disks (its a good thing I bought them in bulk
> ). I have the same problem with my laptop and my desktop and about the only
> thing the two have in common is they are both running XP and I have done the
> automatic updates on them. I don't know exactly when this happened - it's
> been awhile and I haven't had time to deal with it - and doing a System
> Restore back that far is out of the question. Also I do remember when I used
> to format my RW disks there was an option of making the disk like a removable
> hard drive to save things directly to it, but I don't see an option like that
> now when I format. Does anyone know how I can make my drives RW-able again? I
> would really appreciate any help I can get.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Walli