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hethmar

Whilst sitting here, Ive just downloaded the free cdburner xp. Brilliant I thought, appeared to burn all my docs in just 4 minutes.

Ive taken out the disk, put it back in and Im getting a message windows is unable to access - :mad:

Bed I think ...................nite all.

-TangleFoot-

Could be a bad batch of discs... or a sign of impending doom.

hethmar

Thats a comfort May be the discs, I nicked them from youngest sons room. Ill get some new ones.

I usually use CDR or RW but they arent big enough to hold all the documents now. So I put the DVD R in. First of all MS says it has to format it, never had that before. On MS it was taking an eternity to burn so abandoned that. Now, as I said downloaded that program, it whipped through burning in a short time BUT when I put it back in to read, MS says it cant access the disk. Oh I could scream.

Nite all. x

-TangleFoot-

hethmar wrote: »

First of all MS says it has to format it, never had that before.

Unless the discs are rewriteable there's no way it should be doing that. Formatting a write-once disc would essentially turn it into a coaster.

hethmar

Well, yes, but if they give no choice ??????????

bat999

hethmar wrote: »

Well, yes, but if they give no choice ??????????

Maybe start another thread and ask people if they know any freeware CD/DVD burning software that's compatible with Vista.
With any luck you'll get a reply from someone that's actually used it - not just googled it.
:cool:

hethmar

Well the one I used seemed very highly rated - previously Id just used windows when it told me it would take 19 days to burn :eek:

prowla

I use Nero 7 Essentials on Vista, and it is fine.
I've used the Vista builtin write capability and it was totally unreliable.

For Word/Works, you could try deinstalling and installing again.
(Note that M$ sometimes don't fix outgoing versions of apps but instead say that the fix is to update to the newer version.)

hethmar

Im just installing nero 9 free trial download from hippo. But I think its something to do with windows. (Had to abort the nero 9 - it asks for my registration number??)

Is there a way of repairing windows easily without losing any of my docs or data please?

-TangleFoot-

hethmar wrote: »

Is there a way of repairing windows easily without losing any of my docs or data please?

If you have one of these, this might help - though you should probably back up your stuff anyway, just in case.