Hello, Everyone :) I am really naughty about labeling cd's and keeping unlabeled ones separate from blank ones. I used to be able to check CD-R's using XCdroast to see if they were empty or not. But since my only burner is an external USB2 drive, XCdroast doesn't even pick it up anymore, so I can't check CD-R's anymore to see if they are blank. I guess I have two questions, both of which I have not been able to find any answers to as of yet: 1. Is there a command I can use to determine whether a CD-R is empty or not? XCdroast determined that information somehow, so I figure that if I could find out the command that it used, I could use it myself :) 2. Anybody have any idea how to get my USB2 drive recognized by XCdroast, so that I can do it that way? I don't usually use graphical programs to make cd's, but when I do, I only use XCdroast, so it would be nice to get it to recognize my USB2 drive. Any help you can give me is greatly appreciated :) Steven P. Ulrick