Reading files off a CD

[walnutty]

Hi Guys

I have recently purchased a 2nd hand laptop and I cannot get the D Drive to recognise or read the files I burnt on to a CD from my old laptop.
The file type is RAW according to the properties on the D drive, I can see the files have been burnt on to the CD but this new laptop just wont recognise the CD at all.

Any ideas??

[syphus]

When Windows recognises a CD file system as RAW (instead of CDFS or UDF), it means that as far as it is concerned, the disc is blank. If you are absolutely certain the discs do have data, then it’s most likely that the optical drive cannot read them.

It’s not uncommon for some optical drives to have difficulty reading CDs burned at another optical drive’s maximum burn speed. If this is the case, all you can do is find an optical drive that does read them, and make copies.

Try the optical drive with a printed disc (commercially produced). If it works, then you know the optical drive isn’t defective, just a bit particular.