hey
as you know may by previous posts i had trouble connecting my mp3 but its all good now....almost. one new dilemma. whenever i c+p a song (wmp. format- its ok i chekked it with the book, that formats fine) and heres wot comes up:

cannot copy [song]. the disk is write-protected. remove the write-protection or use another disk.

can u tell me how to remove the write protection or whatever so i can use it?


thanx muxh appreciated. plz help!

also- as i addded in my title, as soon as possible would be GREAT coz i might have to send it back soon if it wont work and im really desperate to get it working coz i kno its GOT TO BE possible!!!!!

right click on the mounted disk that pops up in my computer, go tot eh properties and give full permissions to everyone. (just check all of the boxes).

Now, i dont think windows xp has a recursive permission handler, so you might have to change the permissions of eeverything manually.

ok im not entirely sure what you meant but i right-clicked the removable drive E folder and went to properties. There was nothing available to tick so i obviously didnt tick it :) I looked around a little bit - would it help to format it? there was a format option available. If that would help would you recommend 'quick' ; 'full' or 'copy system files only' . Also - i have windows 98 ( it IS compatable, i checked) so i dont know if that makes a difference.

can anyone help please?? i really need it and its probably just something stupid.

would it help if i formatted it? if nobody replies im just gonna go ahead and do it...so if i stuff it up its YOUR FAULT!!! hee hee

dont format it, that'll erase everything on the disk

your first post confused me... so if its a cd, just get a ripper and rip the files off the disk

i dont have anything on the mp3! thats the problem. i have uploaded cds to my computer then when i try to c+p them into my mp3 file it just sez "Cannot copy [song]. disk is write protected, remove write protection or use another device.

Don't triple post please.

First try converting the wmp file to an mp3 via a free converter. Make a back-up of the song jic. If that doesn't work, copy the file to somewhere else, then try it.

you're trying to copy some songs into your mp3 player right? i think im starting to get you now... well if thats true,

try convering the songs to mp3 (itunes can do this for free) and using the software that came with the mp3 to put songs there instead of copying and pasting

sorry about the triple posting. bad habit :(
the mp3 sez it uses .wmp tho...il try it anyway. The mp3 didnt come with ne software to put the songs there. it sez " you will now be able to 'drag and drop' mp3 files to load them onto the mp3 player from your computer". Ill try converting it...i think there was some software for that, ill try it.
cheers

UPDATE:
i tried to convert it using the sound converter tool that came with the mp3 and when i selected to converta .wmp file it sed "unsupported format" .