I copy/pasted a bunch of files to my dvdr drive in vista. when I went
to eject the disc it told me that it was finalizing it so that it can
be read on other computers. NOW, when I brought the DVD to another
computer (running XP dont think that should be an issue though), and I
try to open the disc it says E:\not accessible incorrect function. I
have tried to open other things on that drive and they work so I know
its not the drive. Any way to fix this?

"Ratedr" <raskinscott******.com> wrote in message
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>I copy/pasted a bunch of files to my dvdr drive in vista. when I went
> to eject the disc it told me that it was finalizing it so that it can
> be read on other computers. NOW, when I brought the DVD to another
> computer (running XP dont think that should be an issue though), and I
> try to open the disc it says E:\not accessible incorrect function. I
> have tried to open other things on that drive and they work so I know
> its not the drive. Any way to fix this?[/color]

Search for 'burn a cd' in help and support.

I think that Vista's CD creation software is significantly different from
WXp's.
You have a choice of two formats: Live File System, and Mastered Format. It
defaults to live file system and the option for mastered format is not very
obvious.
I'm not sure, but I think that the live file system is something like a
floppy disk - you have to format it before you can use it, and after that
you can write files, and possibly even delete and rewrite them. Of course,
this kind of formatting on a CD takes a lot of space, like 5% or more, so it
may not hold all the stuff from another CD. And it takes a lot of time.
But it may be time efficient if you are just transferring files between
Vista systems. Non-vista systems cannot read this format. Mastered format,
I think, is what you want. I haven't tried it yet, but I think it quickly
writes the stuff to the CD similar to WXP's data disc creation.

Search for 'burn a cd' in help and support.-Paul Randall