This is odd.

[aimeeandbeatles]

Okay, in my Windows 98 comp which I bought today, it has a DVD-ROM drive. The CD-ROM drive was ripped out and replaced with DVD-ROM, I can tell by looking. Which works good with DVDs and CD's. I got all my CD's working on it, and some DVDs too.

But, I have a CD-RW, for some old games, which is why I bought the computer. I put in drive, and it loads fine, but all the files are vanished! It says 687 MB in My Computer, which is right, but when I go to open it, it says 0 bytes in status bar.

I take it to Windows XP, and the files are there. And they aren't hidden either. I showed the hidden files.

What should I do? I already tried re-burning the files. (It's CD-RW.) And I know in my old Windows 98 (the one I had before I had XP), CD-RW's worked fine. so it's not that.

 

[Shadylookin]

If you just tried one you might want to try a couple more. Sometimes you just get a bad burn.

 

[Snovvdog]

Have you burned multisession or on a UDF filesystem?

Pre windows 2000 systems often do not recognize multisession burns or UDF filesystems, make sure to burn in ISO mode and single session, and have short labels ( under 8 or was it 12 chars iirc? ).

If that's not it then:

Why do you use your cd burner still though when you have a dvd burner ( which is also a cd burner) ? Try them in your dvd burner, if they don't work there still then I don't know.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I used multisession, as I keep adding files to the disc. I'll try single-sessioning.

The burner is both for CD's and DVD's. I have two drives, one for reading and the other for reading/writing. This is on my new computer.

 

[Snovvdog]

That is prolly it, Nero burning rom always warns me when burning multisession, that the next 2nd session might render the disc unreadable in some DVD players and old operating systems.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Since I have a pile of CD-R's to get rid of, I'll copy it to one of those. (I have two drives -- a read drive and a write drive.) I'll get on my new (um, old?) computer in a few minutes and let you know how it went.

EDIT: Sorry it took so long, I got distracted. The files didn't burn right, a lot went missing. but the ones that were on the CD were okay.