Hi,
Ok, let's see if I can make this clearer. Is it all disks that cannot be
read or just certain ones?
Sometimes the problem is how the disks were written. There are two main
types of ways disks are created by a home user, one using the ISO9660
standard, the other is UDF or packet writing. The first is pretty common and
is easily read by most operating systems, the latter is used for drag & drop
style disk burning (treating a CDR/RW disk like a big floppy disk). While XP
does include support for that type of disk, it doesn't always work 100%, and
sometimes requires support from the program used to write the disk. If you
are having trouble reading disks that you created with the prior OS, then
this may be why.
If it can't read any disks, but shows in Windows Explorer, you may have a
dirty drive lens. Running a lens cleaner disk can often help. These cheap
disks can be found in virtually any store that sells blank CD's and
supplies.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
