Hello Group,

I bought a new computer, an HP 3.46 Pavilion. It has a DVD drive, but no R/W. I hooked up the hard drive from my old HP computer and loaded it's contents into a folder on my desktop. No problems. I removed the hard drive and I installed my old R/W CD as a slave and everything works except when I try to burn a disk, I get a "disk is write protected" error. I'm using Fujifilm re-writable blank disks.

Can anyone help?

Keetiecat

Remove the disk from the drive. There is a tab on the disk that you must move. It is located on the back of the disk. If you can see through the hole in the disk, then the disk is write-protected. Slide the tab down so you can not see through the hole. Now you can write to the disk.

Ignore quasiomo as their "advice" deals with floppy discs and NOT CD's.
Now I'd junk the R/W discs as they can be a pain to work with, instead use simple CD-R's single write jobs. This way you shouldn't have any problems.

You bought a new HP Pavilion? Did you buy this as a custom built directly form HP? Because, unless you did and chose a DVD-ROM drive, then you have a DVD burner. EVERY HP PC sold retial for the last 2 years comes with a Lightscribe DVD drives which will read and write DVDs and CDs in all formats except HD and Bluray.

Hi,
He is right... I'm sorry didn't mean to mislead you. U should try to change the cds. I've googled your problem and the same message with the same cd-rw appears.