No disc space left / Disc full. Help please.

[JCBman 10]

Hi,

just writing notes sort of like a diary and saving to disc. I didn`t notice until the last moment a notice saying, Disc full, but I decided to shove the piece that I had written onto the disc anyway.

Now, I`m unable to access the disc at all.

 

Help please,

[CPC464 10]

Try emptying recycle bin

[*Wallace* 333]

Is it the hard drive disc or a recordable disk ?

[andyofborg 11]

what sort of disk is it?

 

can you access any files?

[JCBman 10]

Sorry for delay, it`s a cd.

 

No, I`m not able to access any files.

 

"Disc full" is the only message I can get from it.

 

Thanks for your replies.

Edited November 11, 2014 by JCBman

[Ghozer 112]

If it's full, it's either... full, or its been finalized.. or faulty...

 

try another blank disk...

[JCBman 10]

It`s a cd that I have been putting notes on from Microsoft Word. I write notes, say 4 pages, then save to cd. I have been adding to the cd over the past two or three years and wasn`t aware that it was reaching "Full."

The first I knew was when I was loading some notes on to the cd that I had written. I had almost got them all on when a warning was flagged up. "Disc nearly full." I thought I would just give the "Save" button one more press hoping to get all the notes onto the cd when another sign was flagged up saying "DiscFull," and I haven`t been able to access the cd since.

Any suggestions of sorting this mess I have made will be fully appreciated.

[Ghozer 112]

unless it's a re-writable, if it's full, there's nothing you can do except use a new blank CD

[*Wallace* 333]

I think he's saying he can't access the data on the disc that's already written on there.

[Ghozer 112]

Ah... sorry, brain derp... haha

 

I have had success with corrupted CD's and ones that fail to finalize etc with CDRoller

 

http://www.cdroller.com/index.html

 

see if that helps....

[Guest]

Get a USB stick or external drive. They're cheap and are supposed to be used like this. CD-Rs are not.

[Skink 10]

I know it doesn't solve your current problem but a cheap pen drive (I like Kingston) and something like SyncToy (file sync software) will mean you always have 2 copies

 

Critical documents should never only be in one place so hopefully you have backup somewhere