Or another thought, if your going to be going to so much hassle, why not just remove the hard drive from one of them and slave it up to the other and swap files back and forth that way, no cdr's needed. Cheers Darryl Judith wrote: >Why not completely format them since you can't write on them >again and see if that doesn't help -- it would be a shame to >throw them out if it's simply a matter of you telling them to >create a read only CD. > >I don't use them only CD-Rs so this may or may not work. >Judith > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/