Hi, Susan A few suggestions.... To confirm your burner's readability, try one you have copied before. It's possible the ones you're trying lately are copyright protected and won't allow the burner to read them. Clean it with a CD cleaner disk. If you don't clean it regularly, you may want to run it through a couple or three cycles. If you are suddenly having this problem with some new CDs, make sure they are the proper speed for your device. For example, if your burner is a 24x and you bought 52x, it may not be able to read them. In that same vein, your device may not like (may not be compatible with) the new disks you are using. I had one once that didn't like Memorex CDs but would read all other brands. Again, if these are new disks, check the brand and check the speed. Hope one of these will help a little.

it may be the cd you are trying to copy, I know the walmart photo cd's that I have had in the past were not always copyable they contain special coding or something that can make it hard if not impossible to copy sometimes. but with most photo cd's you just put the cd in the cd drawer and it will pop up a box asking what you want to do, you want to copy to disc, or you can just drag and drop the pics from the disc to a folder on your pc. Right click on the picture itself and you should have some options like save as or copy to you can use those also to tell it where to put the picture. this is the type of situation I have run into with the walmart cd, this is a quote from a website. "WalMart Photo and also Kodak photo processing--available at nearly any supermarket, drug store, etc.--offer to put your photos on a CD along with developed prints. But, included with the CD images of your photos is proprietary photo/album management software. The photo/albun software seems to be pushed on the consumer to make it his primary photo management software program. These programs include a (re)ORDER PRINTS and/or ENLARGEMENTS function. The objective is to cause the consumer to keep using only THAT photo processing source and photo management program on his PC! Either the Walmart or the Kodak software MUST be loaded to even view the photos on the respective CD or to copy the images to your PC's hard drive. Without loading the proprietary software, you cannot view, edit or copy your photos! " I refuse to load any extra software on my pc if I can not do it with the programs I have then too bad. I will not risk putting spyware on my pc.

I have Windows XP and when I am in My Pictures, I have the file and folder tasks down the left side of my screen. One of these tasks is copy this file (so I highlight the picture) then 'copy this file". When I select drive e: (which is my cd file - I have a separate dvd file) that's when I get the 'e: is not accessible.' In the past I have been able to transfer lots of pictures at one time. Now when I click on my e: drive, not even trying to transfer, it says not accessible. Also, I can put a music cd or game cd in that drive and it works. I just can't transfer or even click on the drive? I have an e-machine with Windows XP. Thanks for your help cboy - tried what you suggested, didn't work.

Don't want to hijack Urlee's thread, but I have a related question. Is it possible to record only the audio portion of a DVD to a CD? If so, step by step, please. I have both DVD/CD ROM and DVD/CD burner (2 separate drives).