Problem with reading older CDs

[Third_Man99]

Hi. I've just bought a new HP Pavilion 520c with WindowsXP HomeEdition installed. The system comes with two CD-ROM drives (one CD-RW, the other DVD-ROM), both of which are controlled by the default driver "HP CD-Write cd16f."

For some reason, both drives can't read my old CD-ROMs, which I burnt with DirectCD on my old PC (Win98SE) over the past two years. As soon as I try to open the CD folder, the system displays the error "the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable."

But I'm pretty sure the CDs are OK, because I still can read them fine od my old PC.

It seems that it's some kind of the driver incompatibility. Does anybody have any ideas?

I'm also having trouble with installing the latest DirectCD (with the XP patch) into my HP system. DirectCD somehow disable the existing CD-ROM driver, but doesn't install any new driver, so I can no longer use it.

[Blackwar]

well, i know that if you burn discs with DirectCD , you need to have directCD installed to be able to read those (that is if you didn't close the discs...) so i would give that a try first

Btw, welcome to the boards and enjoy your stay

Blackwar

[Third_Man99]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

If you mean by "closing the discs" as finalizing the discs into the standard format, I've done that already for all my CDs.

Of course, it's still possible that the "standard format" as understood by DirectCD is somehow not compatible with the format expected by the new HP CD-driver.

[Blackwar]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

If you mean by "closing the discs" as finalizing the discs into the standard format, I've done that already for all my CDs.

Of course, it's still possible that the "standard format" as understood by DirectCD is somehow not compatible with the format expected by the new HP CD-driver.

well, i would still try and install DirectCD and see if that can read it..

if not, let us know and we will try to help some more

Blackwar

[Third_Man99]

Hi. I've actually already tried to install the latest EasyCDCreator 5 (with DirectCD and WinXP patch), but DirectCD didn't get installed properly. I'll create another thread regarding this problem, since this is a different issue.