Hi gang,
I made a CDRW a few years back with all of my digital pics on it. It was made on Win98SE with a 4X HP CDRW drive.
Ever since my upgrade to XP I've been unable to read the disc. I had a Lite-on 48X CDRW and when trying to read the disc, it would make windows totally unable to see the drive. It would be removed from the device manager and explorer before my very eyes. I just upgraded now to a Sony DVD/RW 4X drive and pretty much the same thing. It will see the disc, I can see the folder for a sec, and the title of the disc in explorer, but the computer gets extremley slow and I can't see any of the files.
I tried an experiment tonite and I am able to see the disc perfectly in my work laptop - a year old IBM laptop model running Win2000Pro.
Basically, all I want is to be able to read the disk, get the files onto my personal PC on the HDD, and then eventually copy them to a new DVD or CD.
I think the problem came when I upgraded to WInXP. I seem to remember a lot of my discs made with Win98 were unreadable in XP.
Any ideas on a fix for this?
Thanks!
Aaron
I made a CDRW a few years back with all of my digital pics on it. It was made on Win98SE with a 4X HP CDRW drive.
Ever since my upgrade to XP I've been unable to read the disc. I had a Lite-on 48X CDRW and when trying to read the disc, it would make windows totally unable to see the drive. It would be removed from the device manager and explorer before my very eyes. I just upgraded now to a Sony DVD/RW 4X drive and pretty much the same thing. It will see the disc, I can see the folder for a sec, and the title of the disc in explorer, but the computer gets extremley slow and I can't see any of the files.
I tried an experiment tonite and I am able to see the disc perfectly in my work laptop - a year old IBM laptop model running Win2000Pro.
Basically, all I want is to be able to read the disk, get the files onto my personal PC on the HDD, and then eventually copy them to a new DVD or CD.
I think the problem came when I upgraded to WInXP. I seem to remember a lot of my discs made with Win98 were unreadable in XP.
Any ideas on a fix for this?
Thanks!
Aaron