Burn to CDRW with K3B

I found it easy to drag and drop files to a CDRW the first time, but then I was in trouble. When the disk finished burning, Linux had assigned the disk to root, and I couldn't re-use it no matter what I tried. I searched the Ubuntu forum for answers, but all I found was other newbies who had the same problem, and helpful experts giving complex answers that weren't solving the problem. So I left the forum, and found this solution on the web at large.

1. using the Synaptic Package Manager, install a program called K3B, which is a CD and DVD burning program. There are lots of burning tools in Linux, but for some reason K3B has the features to overcome this obstacle, while the others stop cold.

2. Run sudo k3b to run the program as root.

3. In the Tools menu, choose Erase CD-RW to clear the old stuff from the disk.

4. The rest is much like using a Windows program.

Worked for me.