what does white protected mean?

Question

hi what does white protected mean i was trying to save pictures on A CD-R Pro and my cumputer keeps telling that the disc is full or white protected

Answer 1

WRITE protected is what it says. You read it wrong. Write protected means that you cannot write (put) anything to your cd. For example if there's something on that CD already and it's not blank, you cannot put anything else on it. You have to use a blank CD. Even if the CD is not full, but has something already stored on it, you still cannot wirte anything more on it. I suggest you buy a pack of blank CD's and save your pictures on there.

Answer 2

i think you mean write-protected. This basically means that the disc has been locked with a password or that the disc has already been used. With CD-R you can usually only burn to them ONCE unless you left the session open when you started burning the CD. The other option is that the disc is actually full. With CD-R's because you can only burn to them once you CANNOT write over infomation that is stored on them. If that is what you want to do you should buy CD-RW's instead.

Answer 3

Never heard of a "cumputer", but I know I guy who likes to surf the naughty sites, maybe I should order one for his birthday!

I think the message you're getting it "write protected", as the name implies, you can read or look at what's on the disk but can't add anything. If it's a used disk, right click on your disk cd drive icon and look under properties to see if indeed the disk is full. If it is, choose another disk or your burner should have an option to clear the disk.

Answer 4

wRite protected--means you can't just save a file to the CD. You have to use a CD burning program to create the disc. Use Roxio, Sonic, or whatever CD burning program you have on your computer. The only way you can save a file directly to the CD is if you have Drive Letter Access turned on for the CD drive, and you have a pre-formatted CD in the drive. Each manufacturer calls their version of this software something different--DirectCD, InCD, DLA... but you need it turned on in order to write to the disc the way you're wanting to.

Answer 5

I believe you mean "write protected" which means that the CD has been secured and no more information can be stored on it. This is a security feature so that you don't accidentally overwrite important information. It's best to use a new CD-R as this one's not going to allow you to burn it again; you'd need a CD-RW to burn it twice.

Answer 6

Are you sure it didn't say write protected? Most likely the cd is either full, or has been finalized, meaning you can't add anything else on.

Answer 7

You mean write protected, not white protected. (Unless there is a funny mispelling).

It generally means that you are trying to burn something to a disk that already has data on it. Unless you are using a CD-RW with an RW disk, you can only write to a disk once, and then its closed for further writes.

Answer 8

It means that the disk is Write protected. it is locked in some way. I am not totally familiar with burning cd's but it may have been burned already. That is why it is locked. Try another disk.

Answer 9

Write Protected means you can't modify the file.

Right click over the file and take the check mark out of read only, then click apply, and ok to remove the protection and modify the file.

Answer 10

I think you mean WRITE PROTECTED.

It means you can't save your files onto that device, for example the CD-R may have already been burnt and therefore, as it is a CD-R you cannot reuse it. Try another blank CD using official, professional software.