cd-rom buggered

Ciaran · Dec 13, 2004

MtnBikerChk said:
tell me what you think....

Dell celeron laptop with hot swappable cd-rom/floppy.....

A client sends a cdr with data on it. The laptop only sees a few roxio files and none of the data. Other laptops in the office do the same thing. Some laptops and both desktops can read the data files though.

WTF?

THANKS

I am going to say it's either a) A bad burn or b) bad CD's or a brand that your laptop just doesn't like.

If you can get one PC to read it maybe you can copy it to a shared network drive and download it from there.

binary visions · Dec 14, 2004

Ciaran has the two most likely things. It could potentially be a weird format, too, that some of the computers have the software to read and some don't.

Your best bet is to find a computer that will read it, and re-burn the CD yourself. It'll be interesting to see if the computers that read the CD will actually be able to copy the data or open it - I had a CD that was doing a similar thing (my old, slow CD drive wouldn't read it, but the new, fast one would), but even though I could see the files, they were all corrupted and I couldn't do anything with them.

Ciaran · Dec 14, 2004

Ah yes... the Weird Format may be it too. I didn't even think of that one. Good one BV. I remember when I first bought a burner. I burned some music and tried to play it in an old walkman CD player. It couldn't read any burned CD's. Just too old and not compatible.

binary visions · Dec 15, 2004

Ciaran said:
the Weird Format may be it too.

Did you know that's an option now? It's the ISO "Weird Format" standard. When you go to burn a CD you can select, "ISO", "Joilet", or "Old Weird Format".

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