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| Thread ID: 44131 | 2004-04-08 05:33:00 | CD-RW how to delete files? | rdee (1809) | Press F1 |
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| 227988 | 2004-04-08 05:33:00 | hi folks,I have an Acer Aspire 1700 laptop with XP & IE6.I have put some pictures onto a CD-RW.I want to delete some files but cannot because they are read-only & I cannot change that attribute.Can anyone tell me how to delete files from a CD-RW cheers rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
| 227989 | 2004-04-08 05:36:00 | Unfortunately you can't "delete" files from a CDRW. You can however, format the CD RW disk and write new files onto it. | somebody (208) | ||
| 227990 | 2004-04-08 05:48:00 | Susan is correct. The RW means Re-Writeable in the sense the disk can be totally erased and re-used. Not Read-Write like a hard disk or a floppy disk. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 227991 | 2004-04-08 05:55:00 | What about the "drag and drop" method in XP, which I've heard/read is supposed to make CD-RW behave like a floppy, just a bit bigger? Not stirring, not casting nasturtiums, just curious. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 227992 | 2004-04-08 06:43:00 | We should learn something new every day-sorry G no drag & drop either.Thankyou for your quick replys-I should have asked a few hours ago-rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
| 227993 | 2004-04-08 06:50:00 | hey rdee, I've read everyones comments but it's not totally true, the way you format the CD-RW is the way it'll act, you can format it to work like a Floppy Disk, which is how you should have formatted the CD for what you wanted, it appears you've just written to the CD-RW and closed the CD off so no further writing can be done or there's no space left on the CD . Verify this by checking if the CD has free space . The problem is files that are deleted are not deleted in a sense . Where the file existed on the CD, the space is still used up, it has just been NULLed out . Meaning the OS has changed the CD to not display the DATA in that section of the CD, making it invisible but it still exists and data recovery software can recover this information . What I'm saying is if you had a CD that had 500MB free space, and you deleted a file, the free space would go down a bit (meaning you using up free space instead of the opposite in gaining free space, that's the difference with Floppy and CD-RW) where the OS has added to the CD that it no longer should exists or should not be displayed, it does not free up the space as you can't write to that section anymore . The only way to free a CD-RW is to reformat it, which will then free up space, and the OS will write to the CD how to handle that CD . So you never get the full 700MB usuage of a RW CD unless you do a normal DATA write and not a format similar to a floppy . I hope you understand me, it doesn't erase the file, it just makes it invisible to you . If the file was 7MB and you delete it, that 7MB will still be used up, you won't gain 7MB back on your CD . If your CD doesn't have the free space for your files, then it will have problems . This is when reformatting it is the best method, just copy all your files to hard drive, format the CD and then copy back what you wanted . Noel Nosivad |
Noel Nosivad (389) | ||
| 227994 | 2004-04-08 07:31:00 | Susan????? | somebody (208) | ||
| 227995 | 2004-04-08 08:21:00 | Don't know if this will work for you but running Win XP Home Edition have just dragged and dropped a 9mb file from a CD-RW to my C disk. Suggest you drag and drop from the CD-RW to the C drive all the files you want to keep, then completey erase the CD-RW and copy back to the CD-RW all the kept files. For ease you could put the kept files in one folder. Re some of the following comments have just opened a old back up CD-RW which gave readings of Free Space 181 Mb and Total Size 330Mb. I then completely erased the CD-RW and got readings of Free Space 702 Mb and Total Space 702 Mb. ? when completely erasing does the program reformat the CD-RW, program is Prassi PrimoCD Plus. |
FrankS (257) | ||
| 227996 | 2004-04-08 10:39:00 | > Susan????? Oops - unintended gender or name change ... sorry! :) |
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