Windows Xp Refsuing To Read Discs?

DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can't Comm.England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">"3rd party" discs anyway....</div> OK here's the situation.
I've managed to talk my cousin into letting me borrow
his Laptop for a week or so because I wanna try "freestyle mapping".
Allow me to explain, i love playing with WorldCraft (VALVe Hammer) but
I hate doing it on this pc beacuse of all the interuptions and distractions.
This screen is allow directly in the sunlight and i get annoyed easy sitting
here, trying to concentrate on one thing and being tormented by 12 others.

So i was gonna use the Laptop to map in the other room, on the toilet,
and other "extreme" places.
But i'm having a few problems. The Laptop is not "net-ready" so getting
the Half-Life updates, Hammer installer, wad's, etc onto the Laptop is causing
hassle. I decided to burn all the needed files onto a blank CD, shove that CD
in the Laptop and transfer them over. Good plan... in theory!
Now the burn process went fine, all the files are on the disc and waitng to be used.
But whenever I try to "browse" the CD via the laptop... it doesn't wanna know!
So I thought, maybe the burn process went wrong somewhere... nope, I stuck the
CD in 3 different machines and then my own. I was able to browse to the files easily.
So I called my local PC hero and asked him if he had any idea's.... "Windows XP".
Ahh..... apparently Windows XP is VERY fusy about that CD's it will read.
3 different brands of CD-RW later i'm in the same situation.

So I was wondering if any of you nice chappies out there know of a work-around
for yet another XP issue? Some sort of security feature I can disable or an
option I can enable/disable in Nero to get XP to accept the CD?

As much as i'd love to format the Laptop and stick Windows 98 on, I doubt
my cousin would appreciate me wiping his files.

Any and all input is welcome.
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  • Spyder_MonkeySpyder_Monkey Vampire-Ninja-Monkey Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 8Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Doesn't XP come with it's own burning software? I could swear I never had to install anything...
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    XP won't be fussy, your laptop's CD drive will be. What software did you use to burn the CD, and what format was it done in? ISO9600, Joliet, etc.? Was the disk burned so that it was completed and can't be written to anymore? If possible, can you tell us what the make and model of the cd-rom in the laptop is?
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    I'll post as much info as I can find.

    I used the Nero Wizard to create a "data CD".
    "Joilet" is enabled/ticked.
    "Finalise CD" was NOT ticked. But i'll ticke it now and do another burn
    Windows XP home Edition.
    It's a TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502 (from "properties")

    I just used dxdiag and got this:

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    System Information
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    Time of this report: 3/14/2003, 17:08:03
    Machine name: BLACK_BEAUTY
    Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) (2600.xpclient.010817-1148)
    Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
    System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
    System Model: S1800-814
    BIOS: TOSHIB - 970814
    Processor: Intel Pentium III, ~1095MHz
    Memory: 240MB RAM
    Page File: 94MB used, 493MB available
    Primary File System: n/a
    DirectX Version: DirectX 8.1 (4.08.01.0810)
    DX Setup Parameters: Not found
    DxDiag Version: 5.01.2600.0000 32bit Unicode

    Anything else needed? I can pop into the IRC if it's easier?
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  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Use Nero. Nero good. Burn stuff. Hulk smash.
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    Try find driver updates for your cd-drive. See what happens.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Did you click "Close Session" or whatever? As monse said, sometimes older drivers can't read a disc that doesn't have a closed session.
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  • p4Samwisep4Samwise Join Date: 2002-12-15 Member: 10831Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Mar 14 2003, 09:39 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 14 2003, 09:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Did you click "Close Session" or whatever? As monse said, sometimes older drivers can't read a disc that doesn't have a closed session. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yup. My CD writer software says specifically that you need to "close" the disc if you want it to be readable by all computers.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--[p4]Samwise+Mar 14 2003, 06:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ([p4]Samwise @ Mar 14 2003, 06:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Mar 14 2003, 09:39 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Mar 14 2003, 09:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Did you click "Close Session" or whatever? As monse said, sometimes older drivers can't read a disc that doesn't have a closed session. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yup. My CD writer software says specifically that you need to "close" the disc if you want it to be readable by all computers. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Any idea where this option is in the Nero menu's ?
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited March 2003
    Actually, if you could take screenshots of the 7 Nero tabs that make up the burn process and post them here, we should be able to tell you if there is a setting marked/unmarked that might make an older or less compatible CD drive not read it.

    To be most compatible, it should be ISO 1, ISO 9600 Character set, NO multisession, and set to finalize.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    OK here's all the tab's.


    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/Nero/dates.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>


    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/Nero/fileoptions.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>


    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/Nero/info.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>


    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/Nero/multisession.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>


    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/Nero/voledes.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
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  • Gimpy_Doodly_DooGimpy_Doodly_Doo Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14521Members
    It sjould work fine then. do you have any other burning sw?
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  • mojojojomojojojo Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2017Members
    Some drives can read CDRs but not CDRWs, so you could try that.
    I don't think its that sort of problem though - if the laptop is running XP, the CD drive is probably new enough to accept anything.
    I'd try cleaning the CD drive with one of those funny CDs... Laptop drives always seem to get lots of fluff in, and CDRs (and RWs) always seem to be the first things to stop working.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    I ended up taking the non-working" discs
    out-side (argh it burns!) and using them as
    Frisbee's and watching them shatter <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I'm on my way down to a friend's house now to get an RJ45 X-over cable
    and i'll transfer the files over a Temp LAN.


    Thanks for all the replies guys and gals... I guess XP
    can just smell me coming.
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  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    Wait... you said that Finalize CD wasn't clicked with your previous CDs. Now, did you try burning another CD while the Finalize CD option was checked?
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