cannot read CD

[colore]

hello

a friend wrote a CD but in my laptop the CD appears empty

he insists he wrote in the CD some pdf files and we put the CD to his PC and the files were in the CD, indeed

but putting in my laptop makes the CD appear empty

what can I do?

[joe43wv]

If he burned it on his machine, have him try finalizing the disc, most of the time that fixes the issue.

[ripken204]

what does putting it in his pc do...?

and just look at the disc, you can tell if there is something written on it.

[colore]

putting it in his pc shows the files

I will tell him to finalize the CD, although I wouldn't like to finalize it, isn't there a way to read a non-finalized CD?

the CD appears with no files and the properties are these:

can you check from the properties that it is not finalized?

by the way I noticed that the disc is DVD-RW !! but as above it appears as CD

Edited July 6, 2009 by colore

[Ponch]

by the way I noticed that the disc is DVD-RW !! but as above it appears as CD

... You can't read a DVD-RW in a CD drive. If that is the case (always be careful when stating the obvious ).

[colore]

by the way I noticed that the disc is DVD-RW !! but as above it appears as CD

... You can't read a DVD-RW in a CD drive. If that is the case (always be careful when stating the obvious ).

this is not the problem, since the drive reads everything, CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, etc

[mara-]

I had this problem with some previous drives. I just had to re-inset the disc until I get the files to show. There is two things here: You may try updating firmware of your drive, or your drive is failing (which was my case).

Cheers

Edited July 7, 2009 by mara-

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