Good morning list members:

Wonder if someone can help solve a problem for me, this I'm sure will be
simple to some but not to me as a comparative novice.

Through a somewhat circuitous route I recently became the owner of a Toshiba
lap top computer.

This computer has an interchangeable drive - floppy drive and cd rom drive.

Forget the floppy drive - that is working great.

I had assumed that I could copy files to the cd rom drive but every time I
do this, using the Windows keystrokes, and in the usual way, I get an access
denied error message.

I tried to look at the properties for the cd rom drive but was only
presented with the usual info, disk space, etc.  I notice that the
properties page only has a general tab and not a tools tab on my pc which
gives me the option to carry out various maintenance tasks.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, can anyone tell me how I can discover if
the cd rom drive is a cd/rw drive or if I can only read the drive and not
write to it.

I tried saving a Word document straight onto the cd rom disk but was given
the message to the effect that the file is marked is Read only.

I have not downloaded any cd burning software, assuming this would already
be on this new computer.

Can somebody please help.  I am a real novice at this kind of stuff so
simple language would be helpful.

Many thanks, guys.  Any suggestions would be helpful.

Best regards:

DOREEN YALE.


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