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Mini-Me
04-06-2006, 06:45 AM
Hi all
:)

PROBLEM: Certain CD-R's won't read on XP. The CD's were written using Adaptec Easy CD Creator under Win98SE a few years back. Some CD-R's read just fine, other's do not.

Now, when I say they do not, I mean that XP flatly refuses to even LOOK at them - all you get is some fuff about: "Cannot read selected drive"

What the hell is that supposed to mean?!??!!??!!(rhetorical! ;) )

When you first put the CD in, XP thinks it's a blank CD and asks if you would like to burn a new CD.
What the F...?!?!!!

When you RIGHT-CLICK/PROPERTIES the drive, it tells you that the filesystem is RAW and there are 0(zero) bytes in use.

BS!!!!

Now, the reason I am getting a little annoyed, is that these CD's read perfectly when you plop them into a Win98 box, so this proves there is nothing wrong with the CD at all.
:(

I could pull the files across the home network, but I'm trying to use software to catalog the CD contents, and this software will not read a network CD-drive, so that's the end of that idea!
:confused:

Has anyone else had this problem?

...i'm hunting the net now for any info on this issue...

ski
04-06-2006, 11:18 AM
Can you transfer the files to the XP system's HD, and then use the catalog software?

Mini-Me
04-06-2006, 08:36 PM
Yeah, I could do that, but copying every CD that won't read to XP via the network, just to catalog the files, then delete them, seems like a waste of time to me - there has to be an easier way surely!!!
:cool:
Thanks for the suggestion though!
:)

Paul Komski
04-06-2006, 09:55 PM
Could it be a function of the burning software on the two different boxes being not the same rather than a function of the OS?

Could it be a function of the actual CDDrive on the two different boxes being not the same rather than a function of the OS?

Try checking the cd's file system and data with isobuster from http://www.isobuster.com/download/

Sylvander
04-07-2006, 06:52 AM
Are you trying to read CD's on a DVD-drive?

I recently came across a MS Knowledge Base article giving reasons why, under the right circumstances, a DVD-drive won't read a CD disk.