Stephen Worthington wrote:

>** Reply to message from Mike O'Connor  on Sat, 11
>Sep 2004 22:31:47 +1000
>
>>Hi Steven,
>>
>>I guess once you have a DVD-writer you are spoilt forever.
>>    
>>
>Definitely, there is no going back.  I find I am now only using my CD
>writer when I have an ISO image of a CD to write, as it is faster than
>the DVD drive.
>
>> have received several data DVD-Rs [4.7GB size with 3.5GB written] and 
>>cannot practicably read them on the DVD-ROM reader in my 1999 W98-VAIO, 
>>although I can sometimes see the root directory tree folders and 
>>occasionally the first [even second too sometimes] level directory 
>>contents too, but then it hangs, and on a friend's Tower system with 
>>LG-brand combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive under W2KProSP4, it always sees 
>>nothing -- "please insert a disc" etc.--
>>    
>>
>IIRC, Win98 has problems with multi-session DVDs (and CDs).  That does
>not explain problems on a Win2k box though, unless the DVD drive was
>only DVD+R capable and you were feeding it DVD-R disks (or the other
>way around).
>
>Under Windows, you might like to try IsoBuster:
>
>  http://www.isobuster.com
>
>It seems to be the tool that reads unreadable disks on Win boxes.
>
>Also useful is "DVD Identifier" (sorry, I don't have a URL for that
>one).  It can tell you what your drive's capabilities are and what sort
>of DVD media you are dealing with.
>  
>

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the clues - will try them both out later today.

 From my PM Download Center URL-logs :

 Sun Sep 12 04:20:08 2004
  http://home2.planetinternet.be/ping3828/downloads/dvd_identifier.zip
 Sun Sep 12 04:40:50 2004
  http://www.isobusterdownload.com/isobuster_eng.zip

[these are the latest versions as of today's date]

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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