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More info?)
First possibility: your disk is in poor condition and can not be read in all
recorders. Give it to someone who can copy it. OR use a utility like
Isobuster to read the bad data. Alternatively, if you still have your old
computer try reading the disk and burning a fresh one.
Second possibility: (this happened to me) your disk was burned using e.g.
EasyCD and you can not read it unless you have EasyCD on your new computer.
This happens with CD/RW disks and CD/R disk sessions that have not been
'closed'. Remedy; install EasyCD OR use Isobuster or similar.
There may be other possibilities but someone else will need to advise you.
Personally I hate recordable CDs and rue the day they took over from
floppies.
Best of luck
John
"curious" <curious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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9D1AB81-6B25-442D-A713-7A8635B044CB@microsoft.com...
> cd was burned on my older win98 computer...all i want to do is retrieve
> the
> data...my windows xp computer is a brand new machine,....thanks
>
> "John Rampling" wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a CD problem not a WinXP problem. Can you be a bit more
>> precise?
>> Are you talking about old data files that you burned BEFORE you switched
>> to
>> WinXP? Is this a new computer or did you update to XP? Are you using the
>> same burning software? Do you have the CD recorder set to 'enable CD
>> recording'? etc etc
>>
>> John
>>
>> "curious" <curious@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A32B2AE5-F3CA-4979-906F-5E1E45C7BFBC@microsoft.com...
>> > how do i get windows xp to recognize files that were made in win 98?
>> > The
>> > win98 programs installed with no problem...but the data for those
>> > programs(stored on cd) is not recognized. help
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