Hi all I have managed to fix the problem and as I thought, it is possible to write a CD using the windows XP CD writing wizard. To turn on this feature: 1. Go to windows explorer and navigate to a folder showing the drive of your CD recorder. 2. Press alt and enter to go to properties. 3. Press control and tab a few times to get to the recorder tab. 4. You may have to route jaws to PC to check the box that says "enable CD recording on this drive". 5. Now when you place a blank CD into the drive, you can paste files to it as you would with a floppy disk. 6. When you are ready to burn the CD, choose burn these files to CD from the file menu. This will bring you into a wizard which is quite straight forward to use. Hope this is of use to someone Joan Ann. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandberg, Robert To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 2:40 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: CD problem Hi Joan Ann! No that doesn't work because as I said, a blank CD is not readable. You'd have to open your burning software first and paste the files into there. If your Windows Explorer does have a menu option to burn stuf to a CD, you should be able to just select files in any folder and execute that option. The burning software should then open automatically. Cheers, Robbie From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joan Ann Brosnan Sent: Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 14:01 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: CD problem Hi Paul and Robbie I thought I could go to Windows Explorer and choose Cd and paste stuff into the blank CD and then choose "burn these items" to CD" from the file menu. The other thing is, if I put a CD into the drive, if I go to send to, the CD option isn't there so, it doesn't seem to be recognizing the blank CD at all. Joan Ann. ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandberg, Robert To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:51 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: CD problem Hi Joan Ann! Why do you want to access a blank CD with the Explorer in the first place? I assume that the explorer can't identify the object in the drive precisely because it's blank and therefore unreadable. Cheers, Robbie From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Flor Lynch Sent: Freitag, 9. Februar 2007 13:36 To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vicsireland] Re: CD problem Hi Joan Ann, What program do you use to play CD's? ----- Original Message ----- From: Joan Ann Brosnan To: vics Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:11 PM Subject: [vicsireland] CD problem Hi all I am experiencing a strange problem with my CD-ROM drive. I can play CD's and review tracks in windows explorer with no problems but, if I put a blank CD into the drive and go too windows explorer and choose the D drive, it tells me that "D:\ is not accessible unknown function". Could it be a problem with the CD's I am using? The strange thing is I have tried this using CD's from 2 different boxes. Thanks for any help Joan Ann __________ NOD32 2048 (20070209) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com