Ok thankx, now I got it, my cdrom is in fact very old, its from 1997 so yeah it will definitely not read a cd rw like the new Plextor does today, thankx for the info to all who responed. Thanks Vic On Friday 19 January 2001 08:54 pm, A V Flinsch wrote: > On Friday 19 January 2001 20:32, you wrote: > > Hi > > > > Specifically, does anyone know how to > > make other cd roms read the cd rw you just burnt? > > > > I clicked on fixate to make it fixate the cd after the > > burn, this works on cd-r but not cd-rw, I can read > > the cd-rw in the burner, but not in the cdrom like > > I can the cd-r. > > > > Weird and I don't get it. > > Some cdrom drives just do not like to read cdrw's, That's just the way it > is.