Hi,

Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD drive
but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used CD/DVD.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gerald

 

"Gerald Bramwell" <newsgroups@animals-in-distress.net> wrote in message
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> Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
> to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD drive
> but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used CD/DVD.

Windows can read standard CDs without any driver (as is
prerequisite to boot from a CD) but includes no CD (or DVD)
writing or formatting software. Your behavior is normal.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

"Gerald Bramwell" <newsgroups@animals-in-distress.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does windows have its own writer software for CDs and DVDs? I have had
> to reinstall Windows to a new drive. Windows can read from the DVD
> drive but it will not format a blank CD/DVD or erase files from a used
> CD/DVD.


Windows XP can natively write files to a CD, but not to a DVD. It has
no facility to format a CD or erase files from a disc, only to write,
and only to CD.

You must have a drive that is a writer, and you must enable recording on
the drive:
Click Start> My Computer, right-click the CD-RW drive icon and click
Properties on the pop-up menu, then click the Recording tab.
Click to put a check on the box for "Enable CD recording on this drive"
and click OK.

If you have more than one CD/DVD-RW drive in your system, you can only
enable one of them this way.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
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