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Laptop DVD won't read burned cd's

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Racer7201

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I just bought the Toshiba Satellite 1805-S177 at Best Buy a couple weeks ago and haven't been able to get the DVD rom to read the CD's I've burned on my Desktop pc. I've tried a video cd I burned on my pc and it won't play using WinDVD. Also, any data cd's can not be accessed in explorer. I can see the title of the cd, but no files. I have a backup copy of Office 2000 that was burned on the same pc and it will autorun with no problem. The cd's are mostly TDK brand and burned using the TDK velo cdrw. The strange thing is, with the laptop networked to my pc I can see the files when accessed from my desktop pc. I've tried the latest UDF reader, but no help. The laptop OS is Windows XP (NTSF file system), desktop pc is win98se (FAT32). Toshiba tech support was of little help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
 
XP has a patch for burners that may fix your problem. Do your windows update and install the patch. Let me know if that fixes it.

Edit: This will only fix burns made AFTER installing the patch, obviously. So previously burned CD's still won't work. I'm sure you figurered that out, though. 🙂
 
"The strange thing is, with the laptop networked to my pc I can see the files when accessed from my desktop pc."

That really points to a problem in the OS - Maggotry is right - make sure you have all the XP updates. If the DVD drive were not able to read the CDR, you would not see those files across the net.
 
So your laptop will read a copy of Office 2000 that you made (by selecting CD Copy I assume), but will not read any discs that you have recently made? Are you sure that you closed the session (finalized the CD) when burning the CD's? The UDF reader is for discs that are formatted to be used as a large floppy disk. As a last resort, install the CD writing software, that you have on your desktop computer, onto the laptop and see if you can then read the CD's.
 
Well, 2000 had a similar problem reading UDFS CD's, but that was fixed only with SP2. (2000 and XP have UDFS capabilities built in, but of course if there are problems, you really don't get UDFS capability!)

I would not delete or rewrite the data on your CD's if it is really important data, but try to read it from another PC that is not having problems -- like maybe your Win98 PC.

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You could also re-write the CD's as data CD's not using UDFS (i.e. packet writing).
 
Thanks for all the input guys. But for some reason, I was about to start checking different things and everything works now. I've tried several different cdr's and they all can be read or played now. Very strange. Now all I need to do is get WinDVD to start my movies I've created in VCD format with Nero to play automatically. Thanks again.
 
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