Files Refuse To Budge

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:21 PM

OK so I've got me a CD-R with some files on it. I've put things on it and taken copies of them off again with no trouble in the past. Today I wanted to get some of the music on my PC onto my Xbox 360, so I got the CD and tried deleting all the stuff on it but I was told that it was not allowed because the files were read-only.

I've tried cutting and pasting them into My Docs but I can't get them off the CD. I used Ashampoo WinOptimizer 5 to wipe them but it told me that nothing could be wiped because they were either password protected, read-only or in use in another program. I can't un-read-only them because my access is denied.

I then resorted to rubbing magnets all over the CD and - wouldn't you know it? - they're still there like some kind of foreign relative who's had sex with a barnacle.

Can anything be done at all? Is my CD doomed? Should I evwen be using a CD-R to get music onto my '360?

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 08:24 PM

try a stronger magnet

**HyperNova** · 07-21-2008 08:26 PM

Try fire. Fire always works.

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:28 PM

Lol. Ever put a CD in the microwave? Best light show you've ever seen.

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 08:30 PM

ok, before you get a torrent of useless crap

CD-R is write once only
once it's written, that's it - the data's on there for good

CD-RW, on the other hand, can be erased
I'm not sure if Windows can do it natively

Which do you have? (It should say on the face of the CD)
CD-R or CD-RW?

*edit*
Oh, and CD's (and dvd's / hd-dvd / bluray / etc.) are optical, not magnetic
so magnets have no effect on them
The "burning" comes from a laser burning tiny holes in the surface (burned hole = 1, non-burned bit = 0)

On CD-RW, there's a film of melty stuff
"erasing" a CD-RW, means melting the melty stuff, so it fills up the previous write's holes

**Sornaensis** · 07-21-2008 08:33 PM

Get CD-RW ONLY.

Or a Flashdrive or something.

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:33 PM

Yeah it's CD-R.

Right, thanks!

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by Super Duck

Yeah it's CD-R.

You can't erase the data on it

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:37 PM

Would I be able to get music off it in my 360?

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by Super Duck

Would I be able to get music off it in my 360?

yeah, just copy it

(never owned an xbox, so I'm assuming there's no special voodoo needed just to copy stuff onto it)

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:40 PM

Yeah. I assumed it'd be OK if it's in .mp3 or something nice.

OK. Case closed.

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by Seismosaur

Get CD-RW ONLY.

careful,
most "normal" CD players can't read rewritables

Rewritables can only be read back in other rewritables

**Super Duck** · 07-21-2008 08:56 PM

I'll bear that in mind

CD-RWs for backups and stuff (or better still, USB)
CD-Rs for music

**ninja9578** · 07-21-2008 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by Ynot

try a stronger magnet

Ynot is wrong about a technical post

CDs are optical, not magnetic. CD-Rs are written by the heat of the laser changing the chemical properties of them. Magnets won't do a thing no matter how powerful (unless it's strong enough to overpower the nuclear strong force

)

**Ynot** · 07-21-2008 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Ynot is wrong about a technical post

read the rest....

and I am wrong on occasions
(I've even admitted to being wrong)

**ninja9578** · 07-21-2008 11:52 PM

I got all excited that I found a mistake

**Ynot** · 07-22-2008 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I got all excited that I found a mistake

well, you're forgiven
in a rare moment, I forgot my dry humour /stroke/ suspense building characteristic poly-ellipse sentence ending....
which was probably what threw you

also, I just found out I've never said the word "s-o-rry", ever
(I was looking for any thread where I'd admitted a fault)

I've never said s-o-rry
and I'm never going to!!

*edit*
well, I didn't believe it
and apparently, according to the forum search, no-one has said sorry, ever

BUG

*edit 2*
not "wrong" per se
but I did find a thread where the guy didn't seem to impressed
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=43557