Cannot View My Cardiff Photos. Help please

[The Oldman]

Can any computer guru help? I burnt all my Cardiff photos onto a CDRW. Now I cannot open the darn thing. It's showing as "write protected". The disc has 700mb capacity but it only shows as 570mb so the data is all there.How do I get rid of the write protection? Thanks fo any advice

 

[Oval Gull]

Try copying the photos onto your hard disk and then try opening them from there...has worked for me in the past.

Alternatively try opening the CD on a different computer

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Try selecting them all in Explorer, right click on selected files, go to properties and if the Read Only box is ticked, untick it.

I'm probably talking bollocks though - I usually do.

And is untick a word?

 

[Dave the OAP]

throw away all your CDRW's and get CDR's...

CDRW's are shite

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

throw away all your CDRW's and get CDR's...

CDRW's are shite

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[Dave the OAP]

As a DR expert I would:

recommend you check the CD drive you are trying to read the CD from ( some of the older ones have difficulty in reading CDRW's)

I would then get the CD's and go around all our 100 varieties of CD drives and try each one until we found one that would read it.

If all else failed, we would use our associate company to discect the CDRW digitally to get what we could off it.

That is what you pay a DR company for. And actually as an ambassador for my company I am a fecking good AS400 tekkie. That is what they pay me for. If I wasn't I would be out of a job

 

[The Oldman]

Thanks guys. Will try on another computer although my drive opens other CDRW .Deano thanks for your suggestion but I cannot open the photo files in Explorer as they do not show.

 

[The Oldman]

As a DR expert I would:

recommend you check the CD drive you are trying to read the CD from ( some of the older ones have difficulty in reading CDRW's)

I would then get the CD's and go around all our 100 varieties of CD drives and try each one until we found one that would read it.

If all else failed, we would use our associate company to discect the CDRW digitally to get what we could off it.

That is what you pay a DR company for. And actually as an ambassador for my company I am a fecking good AS400 tekkie. That is what they pay me for. If I wasn't I would be out of a job

Dave can I go to a firm that will discect a CD?
Thanks

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

That is what you pay a DR company for. And actually as an ambassador for my company I am a fecking good AS400 tekkie. That is what they pay me for. If I wasn't I would be out of a job

Only joking Dave.

Ooh AS400, that's all OUTQ and SP, F3 to exit and stuff innit - green on black screens, tapes and everything? (I'm still talking bollocks aren't I...)

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Dave can I go to a firm that will discect a CD?
Thanks

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