Extremely Weird CD Problem

[pbl]

I have a training CD that delivers a presentation with links to video
vignettes. It also has three audio files that aren't a part of the
presentation. To start the presentation I simply put it in the drive and
away it goes. I'm assuming it is an Adobe Flash presentation or something
similar. If I 'open' the CD to view its contents I can see multiple media
files and folders. Well that's what happens for all other computers but with
my computer all I can see are the three audio files, there are no folders
and no other files are visible at all and of course windows media player or
PowerDVD wants to play these 3 audio files. I have the latest version of
adobe flash player installed and folder options are set to display hidden
files. Any idea what is going on here??

 

[Mick Murphy]

A lot of presentations are done in Power Point, and application in Microsoft
Office.

 

[pbl]

Thanks Mick but these aren't powerpoint files, they're flv, which I think
are adobe flash files. Just tried it on my wife's notebook - works perfectly
and noticed all the .flv extensions.

 

[pbl]

Thanks but I tried this and it didn't work. Actually I created a disk image
of the first CD and burnt that to a new CD. Is that what you meant? I get
the same problem - only 3 audio tracks show up and none of the other files.
Maybe it is a Vista thing because all the other computers I have tried it on
where it works are XP machines, or maybe it is just peculiar to my
machine????

 

[pbl]

Did exactly as you said leap frog - created a new folder on the 2nd
notebook, copied all files (384 of them) to that folder, burnt the folder
contents to another CD, checked to make sure the new CD 'worked' on the 2nd
notebook - yep all working. Placed the new CD into my vista notebook drive
and dammit only the three audio files show again. Not to be outsmarted by
Vista, I copied all the files to a USB flash drive on the 2nd notebook,
inserted it into a spare USB port on my notebook and guess what - the
presentation started automatically.

So what's going on here?

 

[pbl]

Sorry for the delay - it's the next day here in Australia. Thanks for your
persistance leap frog.

when you plug in the USB drive into vista, (is that what you mean when you
say notebook? vista is on your notebook?)
does it "see" all the files from the usb drive?

Yes, the notebook is Vista and it does read all of the files on the USB
drive. In fact I also copied them to a folder on my Vista notebook and can
run the poresentation there.

I cant explain it any other way.. does the cdrom (or dvdrom) work with all
other disks normally?

Yes - it is a Bluray/DVD/CD read/write combo drive. I have never had a
problem with it until this problem came along.

Are you sure you are using cdroms? and not DVD roms? if you are using DVD
then there is DVD+R and DVD-R
that may be messing up the whole thing...if you are using for example
dvd-r while the device can read dvd+r

The original CD is a commercial CD (not DVD) with a macromedia flash
presentation on it. I have been using CD-R media to copy the original disk
(not DVD+R or DVD-R)

You can download the TRIAL of dvdinfo pro that will tell you exactly what
your device is capable of reading

Thanks. Did so. DVDinfoPro tells me the disk drive reads and writes most of
the formats available. Reads - CD-R,CD-RW, CD MULTI READ, CD METHOD 2,
DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, DVD-ROM, BD-ROM,
BD-R, BD-RE. Writes - CD-R, CD-RW, CD SAO/RAW, CD TAO, DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BUFFER UNDERRUN, TEST WRITE, BD-R,
BD-RE.

is the original cd with the presentation along with all your copies
written on the SAME BRAND OF MEDIUM, meaning
the same brand of blank cd? If so try writing the presentation on a blank
DVD of a different brand....

As indicated the original CD is a comercial disk so I don't know what brand
it is. Also the media that I used to copy the disk worked on another XP
computer just like to original with all files showing up.

This is an absolute mystery to me.

 

[pbl]

Thanks again Leap Frog:

what brand - model is your notebook?

My System Specs:
Dell XPS M1530 // Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6GHz // Vista Ultimate // 15.4
WSXGA+ // 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM // 200GB SATA 7200RPM HDD // Blu-ray/DVD/CD
reader/writer // 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT // Sound Blaster Audigy
Advanced HD

what model exactly is the BR, DVD, CD combo? when you run dvdinfo it says
the model in a box on the right

MATSHITA BD-RE UJ-225S

Many thanks.