DVD drive won't read CD-R's

[cleve]

I'm having a problem getting my DVD drives (under XP) to read CD-R's created
on my Win98 machine.

700 Meg CD-R's written by my HP CD-Writer Plus 8100 (a DirectCD writer) on
my Win98 machine are viewed as "corrupt" by DVD drives on my XP machine.

Almost certainly an XP bug: I have an external (USB) BENQ DVD drive that
reads them fine on the 98 machine -- but not on my XP machine. (The
internal DVD-ROM drive on the XP machine also thinks they're corrupt.)

Anyone heard of this problem (and of a solution, I hope)?

Can't seem to find a solution on the Microsoft site (nor in Google).

Thanks.

--cleve

 

[Guest]

Did you write them on the highest available speed 9like
48 times ?)
Suggestion: write your CD's always at a lower speed to
avoid problems reading them in other CDROM drives !
I use 4 speed maximum and never have any problems.

 

[cleve]

Did you write them on the highest available speed 9like
48 times ?)
Suggestion: write your CD's always at a lower speed to
avoid problems reading them in other CDROM drives !
I use 4 speed maximum and never have any problems.

Thanks for your response.

It's a ca. 1999 drive, on a 233MHz system, and it takes about an hour to
write a full CD -- so that probably means 1X, right?

I'm thinking that DirectCD is the problem -- that XP isn't recognizing the
format it creates. Just got a reply from HP Tech with a couple of
suggestions. I'll post the results after I try them (for the benefit of
anyone else with a similar problem).

Thanks.

--cleve

 

[cleve]

I'm thinking that DirectCD is the problem -- that XP isn't recognizing the
format it creates. Just got a reply from HP Tech with a couple of
suggestions. I'll post the results after I try them (for the benefit of
anyone else with a similar problem).

Yep. That was it. I downloaded a UDF reader from roxio.com:

http://www.roxio.com/en/support/software_updates.jhtml

(Select the entry under "UDF Volume Reader", near the bottom. I got Version
5.1.1.213.)

That solved the problem. XP did not recognize the format written by my HP
CD Writer (that uses DirectCD).

--cleve