Pics won't open

[Panama Red]

Saved pics of our cruise to a CD using Nero. Wife took it to work and it works fine on her work computer. She tried to use it with my daughter's laptop yesterday and the pics aren't even seen. The CD appears blank. The pics are in JPEG and I checked daughter's comp to see what program was set to open JPEG files. It was PhotoSuite so I changed the settings from PhotoSuite to Windows Picture Viewer. Still wouldn't work. Tried the cd in several other comps in the house and all work fine, including my laptop. Finally gave up and burned a new CD with even more pics on it. Now that one works fine on my daughter's laptop! Got me stumped.

[TwoRails]

I just helped a buddy from work with what seems like an identical problem, but sadly he didn't have the originals anymore. I managed to save only 120MB from a full CD. I got lucky more than anything, I think. The best I could tell was they managed somehow to burn the CD-R as a CD-RW as the only thing that could see any files was Roxio 7's Drag-2-Disc program.

[rjfvillarosa]

Reading Rails' post I was just about ask you if the CD was "Closed" you know that some CDroms will not read a CD RW. I had a similar problem when I made some music CD's for the car, they would play on the CD player in the house and on my computer but not on the old Pioneer machine I had in the car.

[Panama Red]

Originally Posted by rjfvillarosa Reading Rails' post I was just about ask you if the CD was "Closed" you know that some CDroms will not read a CD RW. I had a similar problem when I made some music CD's for the car, they would play on the CD player in the house and on my computer but not on the old Pioneer machine I had in the car.

Both were CD-R's and both were closed. Just that one CD wouldn't work on one PC (daughter's lappy). No biggie cuz the new CD works fine. Just don't understand what was preventing file recognition.

[glc]

Some laptop CD drives are too light duty to read a burned CD - the reflectivity is too low. This can vary between brands of blanks too. My laptop refuses to read my Maxells but it can handle most of my TDK's.

[rjfvillarosa]

Originally Posted by glc Some laptop CD drives are too light duty to read a burned CD - the reflectivity is too low. This can vary between brands of blanks too. My laptop refuses to read my Maxells but it can handle most of my TDK's.

That's interesting.