One thing I notice you didnt mention, hows it go with reading a non burnt cd ?? if it cant read that as well, I would say you laser might need adjusting. I will explain in the next email after you say yay or nay on the reading of th eunburnt ones. Cheers Darryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "DH (Rick) Holmes" <hayvan@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "PCTT" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:36 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- CD Burner(2) > Hi everybody, > > My CD Writer - is it playing up, or what? In WinMe and when trying to > write to CD's I've been getting a small window headed 'Insert Disk' and > below: > 'The shortcut "E'.lnk' refers to a location that is unavailable. The > location could be on a hard drive on this computer, on a network or on a > different computer on your home network. Check to make sure that the > disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the internet or > home network, then try again'. > > A right click and then 'Open' and I get a request to insert a disk into > Drive 'A'' > > I have been getting this when I try to open CD-R's and CD-RW's that I > have previously written to, sometimes more than once. in the case of > the re-writables. > > I took some disks to a friends today and got similar results on his > computer(Win98SE). This, I figured indicated that the CD's were to > blame. I called in and bought a pack of 5 Mitsubishi CD-RW's from a > local store and when I got home, I tried to use one of the disks, but > obtained exactly the same results. The same with a second brand new disk. > > Now if I go to Desktop/MyComputer/Edrive/Properties the graphic is Blue > for full, but the 'Used Space' and the 'Free Space' > each show 0 bytes. I can't get to the 'Format' feature as the disks may > need this. 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/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk