Guest aoesimsfreak Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play.
Guest smlunatick Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Re: Disc can't be read or played On Sep 8, 2:34 pm, aoesimsfreak <aoesimsfr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I > wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows > explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games > and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different > format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and > neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play. Do you see any "files" on these disks, via Windows Explorer? Can you try a different PC?
Guest John McGaw Posted September 8, 2008 Posted September 8, 2008 Re: Disc can't be read or played aoesimsfreak wrote: > I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I > wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows > explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games > and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different > format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and > neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play. There are many formats that a "series" might be recorded in utilizing either CDs or DVDs. Some of them require non-standard software for playback. A great starting point to determine what is going on might be to simply ask your friend what software/format she used to burn the disks and whether she verified that they were burned correctly before sending them. John McGaw http://johnmcgaw.com
Guest aoesimsfreak Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 Re: Disc can't be read or played "smlunatick" wrote: > On Sep 8, 2:34 pm, aoesimsfreak > <aoesimsfr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I > > wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows > > explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games > > and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different > > format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and > > neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play. > > Do you see any "files" on these disks, via Windows Explorer? No! > > Can you try a different PC? >
Guest aoesimsfreak Posted September 9, 2008 Posted September 9, 2008 Re: Disc can't be read or played "John McGaw" wrote: > aoesimsfreak wrote: > > I got a set of discs from a friend who burned them for me . It's a series I > > wanted . She sent them to me and I can't play them or view them in windows > > explorer. Although my cd-dvd drive is about four yrs old it still plays games > > and music cds. Was wondering if the discs she sent were ripped in a different > > format that my drive can't read. I have Win DVD and windows media player, and > > neither of these recongizes the disc. they don't auto-play. > > There are many formats that a "series" might be recorded in utilizing > either CDs or DVDs. Some of them require non-standard software for > playback. A great starting point to determine what is going on might be to > simply ask your friend what software/format she used to burn the disks and > whether she verified that they were burned correctly before sending them. > > John McGaw > http://johnmcgaw.com > > I do know that they are vcd's. I did get explorer to view what was on disc 1, but wasn't thinking enough to copy the files to my computer. Dah!Now it wont access them again.Also securom is on my computer via a game purchase. I have heard that securom mess with software that is designed to burn disc. So I am wondering if that is problem also? And I did write to ask her what type of software burned the discs, I am waiting to hear from her.
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