Can't see files on a full CD-Rw

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In news:049A9F22-E2E9-4D8E-99CC-94FF1E9ED298@microsoft.com,
Traci Z. <Traci Z.@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> How come windows XP views my full CD-RW as a blank CD, but shows that
> it has no available space on it. I just want to be able to view the
> files on the CD, but it won't let me. I checked and I have told the
> drive to use with DLA. What am I missing here?

Did you burn it as a multi-session disk and keep adding more and more stuff
to it? Sometimes that will make the disc corrupt at certain sectors and most
software will be unreadable. When this situation crops up I tend to use:

CD and DVD Data Recovery and Rescue tool (CD Data Recovery):
http://www.isobuster.com/download

Galen
--

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without them."

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I basically used it as a floppy disk in that I dragged and dropped files onto
it daily until it was full. It was formatted in Windows 98. The funny thing
is that all the other computers in our office running Windows XP can see it.
I thought maybe I was missing a setting somewhere in my computer.

"Galen" wrote:

> In news:049A9F22-E2E9-4D8E-99CC-94FF1E9ED298@microsoft.com,
> Traci Z. <Traci Z.@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:
>
> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>
> > How come windows XP views my full CD-RW as a blank CD, but shows that
> > it has no available space on it. I just want to be able to view the
> > files on the CD, but it won't let me. I checked and I have told the
> > drive to use with DLA. What am I missing here?
>
> Did you burn it as a multi-session disk and keep adding more and more stuff
> to it? Sometimes that will make the disc corrupt at certain sectors and most
> software will be unreadable. When this situation crops up I tend to use:
>
> CD and DVD Data Recovery and Rescue tool (CD Data Recovery):
> http://www.isobuster.com/download
>
> Galen
> --
>
> "But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
> without them."
>
> Sherlock Holmes
>
>
>

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"Traci Z." <TraciZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C491AE95-BF59-435B-8DDF-2331CEB7947A@microsoft.com
> I basically used it as a floppy disk in that I dragged and dropped
> files onto it daily until it was full. It was formatted in Windows
> 98. The funny thing is that all the other computers in our office
> running Windows XP can see it. I thought maybe I was missing a
> setting somewhere in my computer.

If you could drag and drop files you will probably have to install the
software you used to format the VD.

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