can't read burned cd of pictures?

[Nick Spence]

I have a few cd's that have pictures of family and and
relatives. I was informed they were burned with Windows
98, and when Windows 98 was installed on the computer,
they were readable. Now Windows XP is installed, and they
are detected as blank cd's. I have not tested it on a
computer with Windows 98, but on Windows 2000, Windows XP
Home and Pro it does not work. The cd does not seem to be
damaged. I can't explain it.

 

[aragorn]

win98 did not have a CD burn function built in so you
would have to use some program to burn the pics to
CD...like NERO, JUST-Burn...do you remember the program
used?

 

[Tumbleweed]

I have a few cd's that have pictures of family and and
relatives. I was informed they were burned with Windows
98, and when Windows 98 was installed on the computer,
they were readable. Now Windows XP is installed, and they
are detected as blank cd's. I have not tested it on a
computer with Windows 98, but on Windows 2000, Windows XP
Home and Pro it does not work. The cd does not seem to be
damaged. I can't explain it.

The most likely reason is that they werent burned or you are looking at the
wrong CD's. maybe someone did a test only instead of a test and burn?

 

[Guest]

I Actually never made the cd's myself. It was an older
gentleman, but he says the pictures were viewable and that
he burned them with windows 98. I informed him that not
untill later did windows add a burn cd function, but he
was very sure.

Also on the bottoms of the cd's there is an area that
appears to be written, but it is very small area. Could
this be a multi-session problem? I don't think the cd's
look damaged at all.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Well he may have burnt them with a program but definitely not with 98
inbuilt facility.
Of course, he may not have been aware what was part of 98 and what was part
of the package he bought, witness all the people here who post questions
about Outlook Express, Word and Excel.

If you cant read them on 3 different Pc's and also they dont appear to be
written to anyway, the only possible conclusion is that they werent burnt in
the first place and he was viewing them on hard disk.



There is one thing you could try, I have seen ads (sorry cant recall the
name) for CD data recovery programs aimed at CDs that have gone bad and cant
be read. maybe you could search and download a trial version to see if that
can pick something up?

 

[Steve Nielsen]

I Actually never made the cd's myself. It was an older
gentleman, but he says the pictures were viewable and that
he burned them with windows 98. I informed him that not
untill later did windows add a burn cd function, but he
was very sure.

He had burning software installed. It might be helpful to find out which
software was used.

Also on the bottoms of the cd's there is an area that
appears to be written, but it is very small area. Could
this be a multi-session problem? I don't think the cd's
look damaged at all.

Yes, sometimes multi-session CDRs are not readable on another machine
until the CD is finalized and you'll need burning software like Nero to
finalize them.

Steve