Vista cannot see files in a folder on a CD

[jwgrace99]

I have a Lenovo laptop running Vista Business. I have a CD that I
believe was created in XP.
When I put this particular CD in my drive, Windows Explorer recognizes
it and displays the icon
for the folder containing the files (which are scanned images). When I
open the folder, Explorer indicates that the folder is empty. I cannot
see the files from DOS either. I know that the folder is not empty
because:

1. When I look at the CD at the "Computer" level, it shows a graphic
indicating the CD space is about half used.

2. When I put the CD in a desk top PC running XP, I can view all of
the files immediately.

3. The surface of the CD indicates that a substantial number of tracks
have been recorded.

Is this a security problem, a driver problem, or something else?

John

 

[Adam Albright]

I have a Lenovo laptop running Vista Business. I have a CD that I
believe was created in XP.
When I put this particular CD in my drive, Windows Explorer recognizes
it and displays the icon
for the folder containing the files (which are scanned images). When I
open the folder, Explorer indicates that the folder is empty. I cannot
see the files from DOS either. I know that the folder is not empty
because:

1. When I look at the CD at the "Computer" level, it shows a graphic
indicating the CD space is about half used.

2. When I put the CD in a desk top PC running XP, I can view all of
the files immediately.

3. The surface of the CD indicates that a substantial number of tracks
have been recorded.

Is this a security problem, a driver problem, or something else?

John

What shows in Windows Explorer when you view the CD's contents?

If you see nothing in the way of files that suggests Vista is having
file system or file permission issue. Could be a lot of things.

If your intent is to "copy" the CD contents, try from the command
prompt assuming your can see files in Windows Explorer. If no files
show or your can't copy that suggests that the CD may not have been
closed or any one of a bunch of other things. Read 'format CD' topics
in Vista's help. As long as you have access to a XP machine pick one
of the file formats and format a blank CD in Vista, then attempt to
copy the contents from the old XP machine to the Vista formatted CD
using the XP machine. You may need to copy the CD contents to your XP
machine hard drive first. Depending on the format you may be able to
"copy" the CD with some third party application like Roxio's Easy
Media Player or Nero. I did exactly that with about 80 CD's loaded
with music and it worked fine even though the original CDs were made
in the older FAT32 file system.

 

[John Barnes]

It is probably something else. You probably recorded it with a different
format than can be read. If I had to guess you need a UDF reader.

 

[Guest]

I have found that if the program that created the disk left it open (not
finlized) to allow for aditional files to be added, Vista won't read it. You
can either finalize it in the original computer/program or use IsoBuster to
extract the files.