HELP! iBook won't read DVD-R's made on PC!


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Hi,

Firstly the good news, my new iBook arrived today after 10 days of waiting! I've got 512mb of RAM waiting to put in to boost it up to 640mb.

Before I sold my PC I put all my data on several DVD-R (Datasafe Media) discs, and now they won't read when I put them in! They just spin up and keep making the same accessing noise over and over again and don't appear on the desktop. The only way to eject the CD was to boot into Open Firmware and type 'eject cd'. Any ideas on how I can get these to read? I HAVE to get the data off these discs! :cry:

Cheers,

Nick

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My iBook (G3) reads DVD-R disks, but wont read +R disks, yours might be the opposite, but apple only supports -R, so I dont know why that would be.

You sure these worked on your PC? They could be in some strange format or something that OS X wont read, but most DVDs are in the UDF Format....

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I just burned them using Nero so I would imagine that would use the normal format, they worked fine on the PC.

Interestingly enough, the discs I burned at 2x (I suddenly started having problems at 4x) work fine... i'll give the 4x burned discs another go in a minute - I suppose otherwise I could install VPC and maybe access them that way?

Cheers,

Nick

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I just burned them using Nero so I would imagine that would use the normal format, they worked fine on the PC.

Interestingly enough, the discs I burned at 2x (I suddenly started having problems at 4x) work fine... i'll give the 4x burned discs another go in a minute - I suppose otherwise I could install VPC and maybe access them that way?

Cheers,

Nick

If OS X cant read the disks I dont think that windows will, because VPC uses OS X for hardware functions like that.

If the 2x disks work, it really sounds like a problem with the iBooks drive reading the 4x ones.

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If OS X cant read the disks I dont think that windows will, because VPC uses OS X for hardware functions like that.

If the 2x disks work, it really sounds like a problem with the iBooks drive reading the 4x ones.

I've had times where VPC would read a disk and OS X wouldn't and vice versa. I couldn't tell you why though.

What exactly did you burn?

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