Microsoft KB Archive/303008

= An Error Message May Be Displayed When You Delete a File or Folder on a CD-RW Media =

Article ID: 303008

Article Last Modified on 1/15/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 * Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

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This article was previously published under Q303008



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to delete a file or folder on a CD-RW media, you may receive the following error message:

Error Deleting File or Folder.

Cannot delete. Files on this CD-ROM drive are read-only. You cannot copy or move files over to this CD-ROM drive.



CAUSE
The problem can occur because individual files cannot be deleted from CD-RW discs. The CD-RW disc cannot be used for random-access storage during a write function.



RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, reformat or erase completely the CD-RW disc before you write to the disc.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
The entire CD-RW disc must be erased and rewritten whenever you want to change any information on that disc, for example, if you want to change a single byte of data, erase a file, or update a file.

Keywords: kberrmsg kbhardware kbprb KB303008

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