Can't see files on a full CD-Rw

[Guest]

How come windows XP views my full CD-RW as a blank CD, but shows that it has
no available space on it. I just want to be able to view the files on the
CD, but it won't let me. I checked and I have told the drive to use with
DLA. What am I missing here?

 

[Galen]

In Traci Z. <Traci (e-mail address removed)> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

How come windows XP views my full CD-RW as a blank CD, but shows that
it has no available space on it. I just want to be able to view the
files on the CD, but it won't let me. I checked and I have told the
drive to use with DLA. What am I missing here?

Did you burn it as a multi-session disk and keep adding more and more stuff
to it? Sometimes that will make the disc corrupt at certain sectors and most
software will be unreadable. When this situation crops up I tend to use:

CD and DVD Data Recovery and Rescue tool (CD Data Recovery):
http://www.isobuster.com/download

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[D.Currie]

How come windows XP views my full CD-RW as a blank CD, but shows that it
has
no available space on it. I just want to be able to view the files on the
CD, but it won't let me. I checked and I have told the drive to use with
DLA. What am I missing here?

What software did you use to burn the RW? Some of that stuff is proprietary,
so you need the same software to read it that you used to write it.

 

[Guest]

I basically used it as a floppy disk in that I dragged and dropped files onto
it daily until it was full. It was formatted in Windows 98. The funny thing
is that all the other computers in our office running Windows XP can see it.
I thought maybe I was missing a setting somewhere in my computer.

 

[Galen]

In Traci Z. <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I basically used it as a floppy disk in that I dragged and dropped
files onto it daily until it was full. It was formatted in Windows
98. The funny thing is that all the other computers in our office
running Windows XP can see it. I thought maybe I was missing a
setting somewhere in my computer.

The other computers see the files fine but that one does not? Does that
CD-ROM have problems with reading other CDs? If they can see it fine on
other PCs then the trouble is a bit more disturbing in that it could be
hardware related.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I basically used it as a floppy disk in that I dragged and dropped
files onto it daily until it was full. It was formatted in Windows
98. The funny thing is that all the other computers in our office
running Windows XP can see it. I thought maybe I was missing a
setting somewhere in my computer.

If you could drag and drop files you will probably have to install the
software you used to format the VD.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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