playing a burned CD-RW

12 years ago

Have a new Toshiba,my daughter burned some genealogy info on CD for me and would now like to play it' Can someone give me baby steps...after inserting the cd into my computer then what....

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azinoh
12 years ago
After inserting the CD into the computer, it will either auto-play or it won't. If it won't, then read the disc and tell us what kind of file it is.
kudzu9
12 years ago
If it doesn't play, you can also use Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) to navigate to the name of that drive, and click or double-click on it to see if you can get into that disc's file directory.

Also, sometimes when a burned disc won't open, it means that the person who created it didn't perform the final step of "closing" the disc so it can be played on other computers.
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As only leaving Win98 18 months ago, kicking and screaming I admit, my position is it shouldn't matter R vs RW. I would recommend that she open My Computer and see if the drive is recognizing the disk. Unless you named the disk it should read as a series of numbers rather than the drive letter identifier. If the disk is recognized have her double click on it, or right click and select open on the appearing drop down menu. I do have one other thought. Your WMP version may be so more ahead than hers, she might not have the technical ability to open the files. You might have to redo the disk with perhaps Irfanview and ask her to install it on her system too. Irfanview worked fine on my old Win98 and still does on the one out in the garage. Plus, to avoid the possiblity use a CD-R if you do. DA
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finchelover
Original Author
12 years ago
ou mean disc I used to copy....Memprex high speedCD-RW
80 min
would this make a difference at time this was on a Dell and now have a new comp. and its a Toshiba....I will see my daughter tomorrow so will ask her what she did..hope she has answer. Thanks all
owbist
12 years ago
Tell us what, if anything, happens once you insert the CD in the drawer.

Is the data written using genealogy program, if so are you running the same software to recognise the data?

As kudzu9 notes, you can use Windows Explorer
RIGHT click Start
click Explore and a new window appears.
Look down the left side for your CD player, likely marked as D:
click on it to highlight it and now look in the right pane for the contents of the CD. Try double clicking on anything that says 'Application' to the right of the file name.
kudzu9
12 years ago
What I meant was: If you burn a disc on one computer, it may play fine in that computer even if it isn't "closed" (this is a technical term...a step with a specific meaning). But if you take it to any other computer it may or may not play.
abreeze
12 years ago
An old desktop of mine has auto play disabled. I simply right click on "Computer" which will show the Hard Drive(s) and DVD and CD Devices on your computer. Find the CD or DVD Device listed for the inserted disk. Right click on that drive and click on Play.

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