Check Taskmanager to see if WP11, Nero, or similar is running that accesses
the Drive.
Could be the drive is not closing fully.
Try other brand disks.
"Bruce Phillips" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I have been burning DVDs/CDs successfully for the six months I've had this
> Vista Home Premium machine (using 3rd party software). Just recently I'm
> getting the error that the drive cannot be locked ("access denied") when
> trying to burn data DVDs/CDs. I'm still able to burn an audio CD within
> VMC,
> however.
>
> I have a feeling some process/dll has a handle on the drive, but I don't
> know how to find that out. Anyone with any ideas?
>
>