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Making cds

Dec 7, 2003 2:59PM PST

I made up a CD for a friend...I added various programs...movies...pictures...PP presentations...oodles of things were added to fill up the disk(holds 4.7Gs)...a DVD-R

On MY computer all the things showed as on the disk but when she tried to open the disk on HER computer it said the disk was empty

I am using Win XP and I'm not certain what she has but I know it isn't XP(I THINK it's Win 2000)

The only thing I can think of is that a regular cd-rom can't read these cds and I bet that's what she has

Is there any way around this? The movies I sent were not DVDs they were avi and shouldn't she be able to see the pictures at least?

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Re:Making cds, dvds or How did you make it?
Dec 7, 2003 8:44PM PST

A common glitch is that one person creates a multi-session recording or leaves the CD in a state where you can add more files. Not all machines will read such a disk.

While not about DVD http://www.cdrfaq.org/ covers this issue for CDs and it's the same issue.

Any use of DirectCD or such will also create headaches.

Bob

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Re:Re:Making cds, dvds or How did you make it?
Dec 8, 2003 2:23AM PST

I did finalise the disk before I gave it to her...my burner said this was necessary so most anyone could read it later on other computers

I will check the link and see if I get any joy there

Thanks

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You can't read a dvd on a cd player.
Dec 8, 2003 5:46AM PST

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