CD Question

[Kim]

On my old computer, with Windows 98, I copied some photos
onto CD-R discs using Adaptec CD Creator. I recently
purchased a new computer which has Window XP and Roxio
Direct CD software. When I install the CD into the new
computer, I can't access the files. (They don't even show
up in Explorer) Any suggestions?

1) If you delete (or attempt to delete) a file from a CD-
R disc, does it make the disc unaccessible?
2) Is there any way to retrieve data off such a disc?

Thanks for any help.

Kim

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On my old computer, with Windows 98, I copied some photos
onto CD-R discs using Adaptec CD Creator. I recently
purchased a new computer which has Window XP and Roxio
Direct CD software. When I install the CD into the new
computer, I can't access the files. (They don't even show
up in Explorer) Any suggestions?

1) If you delete (or attempt to delete) a file from a CD-
R disc, does it make the disc unaccessible?
2) Is there any way to retrieve data off such a disc?

Thanks for any help.

Kim

Did you finalise the CD? If not, you possibly will only be able to view it
with the software with which it was created.

 

[Super-b]

The cd may be scratched and unreadable. Is it possible
the cd is actually a cd-rw and has been erased?

1)You cannot delete a file from a cd-r. it is read-
only. U could however scratch the disk making it
unreadable.
2)Does the data still show up when u put it in ur other
pc? If it does, u can try copying it from the disk to ur
hdd and then it'd be on that computer and u'd have a wide
range of options like trying to reburn it (although i
doubt that would make a difference) or using a cross-over
cable (or ur home network) to transfer the files from one
pc to the other.

Win98 uses fat32 and WinXP will use either fat32 or
NTFS. I think u can still transfer the files, or at
least have them show up even if u had formated the winxp
computer to be ntfs so that rules out my idea of it being
the file sytem difference between the OSs.