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icruise · Nov 14, 2002, 07:42 AM

I burned a data DVD for the first time with my windows machine (using the newest version of Easy CD Creator). While the DVD works fine on the machine I burned it on, and in virtual PC (in windows 98, without Easy CD Creator installed) it shows up as having no contents when I try to use it in the Jaguar finder. The disc shows up, but it's as if it is blank. Is there any way to use this disc in Jaguar, or is there a way to burn data DVDs in windows that will make them compatible with OS X?

icruise · Nov 15, 2002, 07:01 AM

Any ideas?

edddeduck · Nov 15, 2002, 07:25 AM

Did you leave the session open? If you did close the disk and try again.

Cheers Edwin

icruise · Nov 15, 2002, 08:48 AM

Thanks for the reply. Actually I don't think it is possible to leave the session on a DVD-R open, since DVDs don't support multiple sessions. I did a little more experimenting, and the disc actually works fine in OS 9 (it took about 10 minutes to "rebuild the desktop file" for the DVD but after that the files showed, no problem) and this leads me to believe it is an OS X issue. I remember now some posts by people on Macintouch or somewhere about problems they were having getting OS X to read DVDs burned by a particular set-top box DVD recorder, and I am thinking this may be the same issue. I hope it gets resolved.