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by sbdenver

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Regarding: Downloads
>BrowserOS: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
>SourcePage: https://www.techrepublic.com/forumqa/main.jhtml
Comments: Hello!

I have grown very grateful for the ability to download information from your site using Winzip, and placing it on my E:\ drive, which is my CD-RW drive.

Suddenly, I am not permitted to do this anymore. The downloads I now choose (which are no different from any others that have been freely offered) are now read-only and demand to be loaded into the C:\unzip folder on my hard drive, or they won't download at all. When I try to load the files onto my E:\ drive I get a dialog box telling me that I don't have permission to open the file, and to see the system administrator. Yet, I have no trouble loading the file to where I don't want it...on my C:\ drive. Also, the applications involved will not let me move it OFF of my C:\ drive and ONTO the CD in my E:\ Drive where everything else from Tech Republic has gone.

What has happened to my download functionality? Has something gone awry
with my Winzip? Has something changed within the confines of Tech Republic? Please help. Your site is fabulous, but I want to minimize the use of my hard drive as I use it.Thanks!
Scott

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by mishratron

two things to check
first is the CD in the cdrom full ?
if it is new has it been formated ? ( I have seen some CDRW's that must be formated by the cdrom)
Second Are you sure your disk is a cdrw or maybe a normal CDROM?

Thanks and I hope I have helped!

by mishratron

two things to check
first is the CD in the cdrom full ?
if it is new has it been formated ? ( I have seen some CDRW's that must be formated by the cdrom)
Second Are you sure your disk is a cdrw or maybe a normal CDROM?

Thanks and I hope I have helped!

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