I really need help fast. I am on a laptop and I am the administrator, no
other users. When I try to Save As, any document, to a CD, (D: drive), it
gives me a message saying,"Access Denied", I click OK, and it sends me a
message that says, This drive is not accessible, see your administrator.
I really need these documents, can anyone help me fast?
Many Thanks!

using window explorer right click on that drive and open properties then
select the recording tab, ensure that the enable cd burning box is checked,
if not check it and ok out.

"amsmith" wrote:
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Thank you so much for the suggestion, I really appreciate it. It did not work
though, it was already checked to enable. I still got the message saying dod
not have acces to folder D:\, see administrator for access. I do have xp. I
am lost now of what to do.

Have you tried to copy a file in Windows Explorer by drag and drop? I've
seen situations where either this, or using a CD burning software package
will perform the task, even if save-as won't. Doesn't really address the
underlying problem, but might get you through your emergency.

Can you use a flash drive instead?

Mark

"amsmith" wrote:
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I will try that thanks.

most likely you can't save directly to cd, you will have to save to the hd
first then copy to the cd.

"amsmith" wrote:
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Okay, Thank you so much, I was able to get the documents by copying to cd,
well at least it says files are ready to copy. I am completely stumped on
this issue of why can't I save to the cd/rw?
Again thank you both for the quick suggestions. I appreciate it.

amsmith wrote:
> Okay, Thank you so much, I was able to get the documents by copying
> to cd, well at least it says files are ready to copy. I am completely
> stumped on this issue of why can't I save to the cd/rw?
> Again thank you both for the quick suggestions. I appreciate it.
>

Because the XP file system cannot write to a CD.

To get a file to a CD the file has to be burned by a completely different
bit of software.

To save directly to CD you have to use "Packet Writing" software, the
type of software that also allows you to do things like "Drag & Drop"
files to the CD/RW. You really *don't* want to use this kind of
software! Files that are written with packet writing software are very
prone to being lost or inaccessible when you most need them!

In theory packet writing looks like a really good idea but in practice
it has a very bad track record, files made with this type of software
are only guaranteed to be accessible with the same model of cd writer as
the one that they were made on, not a very good thing if you want to
retrieve the files on a different computer, or if your older drive fails
and you cannot find and exact replacement for the obsolete drive, all of
a sudden the files that you made a few years ago, and that you thought
to be safe and sound, may be lost or difficult to retrieve. A very bad
thing indeed, stay away from packet writing and do as sgopus suggested,
copy the files to the hard drive then burn them to the cd with proper
burning software.

John

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