98-Guy Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Buddy of mine told me this today.A friend comes to his place over the weekend. He's got a fancy SLR camera and a Vista laptop. Buddy takes a bunch of pictures, then hands him a generic CD-R. Friend connects the camera to his laptop to transfer the pictures and then burns them on the CD-R.Buddy takes CD to his XP computer, but it comes up like it's a blank CD-R. Brings the CD back to the friend, put it back into the vista laptop, and images are there.Brings the CD into the office today, and none of our systems (all XP) can see any files on it. Drive Properties shows a reduced disk capacity, but that's the only hint that something is on the disk. One guy even boots a virtual instantance of Vista on his XP system, but still shows no files.So what's the deal?Does Vista use some weird file system for burning files to a data CD-R ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 (edited) UDF maybe? Might be a new feature in Vista and it wasn't noticed when burning. Check on that (don't have Vista, but sounds reasonable). May just need a UDF-reading software put on XP. Don't know if IsoBuster would reveal that or not (trial version available I think).Note - Virtual usually uses the true interface (correction anyone?) from the host system, so...Yep, UDF inconsistency confirmed -http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPo...2&SiteID=17 Edited August 19, 2008 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisO Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 (edited) If this is the Vista UDF 2.5 issue, you can download these drivers (might require special hardware you don't have) UDF 2.5 drivers for XP at:http://files.digital-digest.com/downloads/...P-BluePrint.rarWhat did he use to burn the CD, a 3rd party app or Window's built in CD writing?It's possible he burnt a cheap CD (ex: Memorex) on a LiteOn burner (a cheap crappy overrated burner) and now normal burners can't see it. I have many CDs/DVDs that are unusable because they were Memorex discs burnt by a LiteOn burner, the combination seems fatal. Edited August 19, 2008 by TravisO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th3_uN1Qu3 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 It's possible he burnt a cheap CD (ex: Memorex) on a LiteOn burner (a cheap crappy overrated burner) and now normal burners can't see it. I have many CDs/DVDs that are unusable because they were Memorex discs burnt by a LiteOn burner, the combination seems fatal.Don't bash Lite-On. They're the only optical drives still kicking in my rigs. I agree on the Memorex discs though, they had a bad batch which fried a couple of my old LG CDRWs - after burning those they would only burn at 8x regardless of media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98-Guy Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 OK, so let me get this straight.Vista uses a proprietary file format for burning files to recordable optical media, and is not offering a driver for XP to be able to read them?????Is this common knowledge?Is it similar to Roxio's Direct-CD or Nero's IN-CD ???Is there really no driver for XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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