An Error Message May Be Displayed When You Delete a File or Folder on a CD-RW Media

When you attempt to delete a file or folder on a CD-RW media, you may receive the following error message:

The problem can occur because individual files cannot be deleted from CD-RW discs. The CD-RW disc cannot be used for random-access storage during a write function.

To work around this problem, reformat or erase completely the CD-RW disc before you write to the disc.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

The entire CD-RW disc must be erased and rewritten whenever you want to change any information on that disc, for example, if you want to change a single byte of data, erase a file, or update a file.