CD burner question

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I have two nearly identical computers. Each AMD Athlon XP equipped,
same amount of memory and same brand optical devices.

Computer #1 is Windows XP Home running Roxio Easy CD Creator.
Recently a CD-RW I had only used a few times for general backup duties
failed to report the data. Instead the drive lists three files:

autorun.inf
UdfrChk.exe
udfrinst.zl

I put the disc into a CD-ROM drive, same box, same message.


Computer #2 has Mandrake Linux 10.0. This sees the original data just
fine.

Wondering why the system that created the data disc can't read it on
either drive yet the data is easily read on the Linux box? Might this
be a Windows XP or a Roxio glitch?
 
Jim said:
I have two nearly identical computers. Each AMD Athlon XP equipped,
same amount of memory and same brand optical devices.

Computer #1 is Windows XP Home running Roxio Easy CD Creator.
Recently a CD-RW I had only used a few times for general backup duties
failed to report the data. Instead the drive lists three files:

autorun.inf
UdfrChk.exe
udfrinst.zl

I put the disc into a CD-ROM drive, same box, same message.


Computer #2 has Mandrake Linux 10.0. This sees the original data just
fine.

Wondering why the system that created the data disc can't read it on
either drive yet the data is easily read on the Linux box? Might this
be a Windows XP or a Roxio glitch?
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It just might help to know what 'the data' is; not to mention which version
of EZCDCreator and what method/settings you used to burn it.
 
It just might help to know what 'the data' is; not to mention which version
of EZCDCreator and what method/settings you used to burn it.
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Simple data, as in text files.

Easy CD Creator 5.0 upgraded to 5.3.2.34
 
Jim said:
Simple data, as in text files.

Easy CD Creator 5.0 upgraded to 5.3.2.34
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Still don't know what the settings were but, just off hand, I'd say you
burned it in some incompatible manner: incompatible file system,
incompatible mode... incompatible something.
 
Jim said:
I have two nearly identical computers. Each AMD Athlon XP equipped,
same amount of memory and same brand optical devices.

Computer #1 is Windows XP Home running Roxio Easy CD Creator.
Recently a CD-RW I had only used a few times for general backup duties
failed to report the data. Instead the drive lists three files:

autorun.inf
UdfrChk.exe
udfrinst.zl
Click to expand...

I'd say that the disc was written with packet-written UDF disc.
Have you tried running the EXE to install the UDF reader software?


-WD
 
Jim said:
I have two nearly identical computers. Each AMD Athlon XP equipped,
same amount of memory and same brand optical devices.

Computer #1 is Windows XP Home running Roxio Easy CD Creator.
Recently a CD-RW I had only used a few times for general backup duties
failed to report the data. Instead the drive lists three files:

autorun.inf
UdfrChk.exe
udfrinst.zl

I put the disc into a CD-ROM drive, same box, same message.


Computer #2 has Mandrake Linux 10.0. This sees the original data just
fine.

Wondering why the system that created the data disc can't read it on
either drive yet the data is easily read on the Linux box? Might this
be a Windows XP or a Roxio glitch?
Click to expand...

had similar problem only selective drives would read my data discs so I
changing the save format from UDF to ISO in Roxios settings.

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dj
 
had similar problem only selective drives would read my data discs so I
changing the save format from UDF to ISO in Roxios settings.

dj
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Looking at my setup files it was using Joliet as the default file
system. ISO 9660 and UDF being the remaining choices. Will
experiment to see which works best.

Thanks.
 
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