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D DRIVE FULL NO OPTION TO EMPTY AS WITH C DRIVE CANT BURN CD

Aug 12, 2011 2:53PM PDT

MY D: DRIVE HAS HAD ISSUES FOR SOME TIME NOW AND I HAVE TRIED TO FIGURE THIS OUT AND I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO> HOW CAN I EMPTY IT OR FREE UP SPACE LIKE THE C: DRIVE DOES>>>

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What is this D Drive?
Aug 13, 2011 12:02AM PDT

You mention "burn" so is this drive a CD Drive?

Is it a CD/R or CD R/RW drive?

A CD drive is a drive that just reads CDs

A CD/R drive is a drive that can 'burn' data on to CDs just once. Those CDs must be a special sort, called CDR disks. That means you can write to the disk, (in other words, copy data to the disk). A CD/R drive can also read CDs

A CD R/RW drive is a drive that can burn, (or copy to), data not just once, but multiple times. Those CDs must be a special sort called CDR/RW.

A CD drive, (CD/R and CD R/RW) does not normally have a CD inserted. You usually only insert a CD into the CD drive when you want to do something with the CD. So to say that the CD drive is full is not understood.

If you have a CD in that drive and it is full, take the CD out and insert another, blank one.

Mark

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Mark thank you for your response I've included more info>>>
Aug 13, 2011 1:41AM PDT

Correction: its the DVD-RW DRIVE (D:)and I'm unable to burn cd's or even save information to disks (CD-R's) where you can save documents and write/burn cd's/ I've am unbale to clear the DVD-RW DRIVE (DHappy (it shows its full) and doesn't give the option as with the local disk drive (CHappy where you can free up space> Now amazingly last evening as I was utilizing this site for the first time> I AMAZINGLY! burned a cd! And then I went to brun another after that one and the same issue occured again * meaning it says error message: ^INSERT A DISK^- I then utilize the same cd's (blank) that I had burned last evening (the other one I tried last night after I burned a cd was different)^ Antewho I put in the same type of CD-R that I burned with last night and much to my disappoint I wasnt able to burn a cd again^error message saying insert a disk^its not reading>>> Hope this is more informative of my situation>to be able to assist me: Thank YouHappy

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You don;t mention your Operating System ...
Aug 14, 2011 9:00AM PDT

so with this being the Windows XP forum I will just assume that is what you have.

First, you mention that this drive D: is a DVD-RW. If you put a DVD +/-R disk in XP cannot write to it but if you put a CD-R or RW into it XP can write files to it. The exact process is stepped through at this link -
http://www.ehow.com/how_2054349_burn-cd-using-windows-xp.html
or
http://bestnetguru.com/winxp/burning_cd.html (with screen shots)

Now, about deleting the files waiting to be written. Windows XP stores those files at C:\Documents and Settings\<user name="">\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning\Backup.bkf where <user name=""> is the name of your user profile folder and Backup.bkf is the name of the backup file. If you delete that *.bkf file you will "empty" it.
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Nice
Aug 14, 2011 8:43PM PDT

I had forgotten that XP cannot write to DVD disks.

Thanks Edward.

Mark