I have been through this before and learned my lesson  to not allow windows media 
player to apply copy protection because when you do, you can not erase a CD-RW because 
the files become of course read only.


   I had to go into my registry to make the recording tab show up in the drives properties 
window. With that all enabled, computer restarted and everything should be ok right? 
No.


   So, the music on the disk is 1. not protected. 2. disk recording is enabled. 3 
there are no third party software to interrupt it and 4. I have ALL permissions over 
EVERY little thing concerning my computer. So does anyone know what the problem is? 

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re: "ERASE THIS CD-RW" context menu item missing Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 5:25 am Posted by Johnb33 (2283 messages posted) Have you tried Nero or Roxio to try erasing the cdrw? On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:21 pm, Jake wrote: > I have been through this before and learned my lesson to not allow windows media >player to apply copy protection because when you do, you can not erase a CD-RW because >the files become of course read only. > > > I had to go into my registry to make the recording tab show up in the drives properties >window. With that all enabled, computer restarted and everything should be ok right? >No. > > > So, the music on the disk is 1. not protected. 2. disk recording is enabled. 3 >there are no third party software to interrupt it and 4. I have ALL permissions over >EVERY little thing concerning my computer. So does anyone know what the problem is? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "ERASE THIS CD-RW" context menu item missing Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 6:08 am Posted by Jake (20 messages posted) No, I haven't. I will try that next and tell you what happens. On Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 5:25 am, Johnb33 wrote: >Have you tried Nero or Roxio to try erasing the cdrw? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "ERASE THIS CD-RW" context menu item missing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:27 am Posted by Kevinh (634 messages posted) The file protection has nothing to do with the ability to erase a CD-RW, the only thing you need is decent 3rd party burning software that has the erase function, the native XP windows burning software is very limited if not poor. On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:21 pm, Jake wrote: > I have been through this before and learned my lesson to not allow windows media >player to apply copy protection because when you do, you can not erase a CD-RW because >the files become of course read only. > > > I had to go into my registry to make the recording tab show up in the drives properties >window. With that all enabled, computer restarted and everything should be ok right? >No. > > > So, the music on the disk is 1. not protected. 2. disk recording is enabled. 3 >there are no third party software to interrupt it and 4. I have ALL permissions over >EVERY little thing concerning my computer. So does anyone know what the problem is? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "ERASE THIS CD-RW" context menu item missing Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7:48 am Posted by Jake (20 messages posted) Thats just it. I didn't use XP to burn the disk, I used windows media player to do it. Also I discovered that I had made sure the option to protect the files was unticked but after the burn the attribute flags were there. Anyway I have used XP's erase function before and now the item is not there in the context menu. On Monday, November 9, 2009 at 5:27 am, Kevinh wrote: >The file protection has nothing to do with the ability to erase a CD-RW, the only >thing you need is decent 3rd party burning software that has the erase function, >the native XP windows burning software is very limited if not poor. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum