Hi everyone,

My friend has burned several DVD discs full of vids for me on his Vista machine using the Vista burning tool/software.

When I try and access the DVD on my XP machine the disc is showing as 'CD Drive' in My Computer and shows 0 Bytes Free Space and 0 Bytes Total Space. He is 100% certain he burned the videos onto them though. And the strange thing is that a COUPLE of the discs are working ok in my machine and play the videos.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening and how I could access the videos on the DVDS that are showing as having no data on them?

Thanks
paveyard,Welcome to the Ch forums. 1st question do the ones that don't play on your computer play on the one that created them?A possibility is that your friend did not finalize the disc before giving them to you. ALSO could be a problem of what the creator's DVD was capable of burning to as to disc type versus what your drive is capable of reading. more info is required. truenorthI'm not sure if they will play on the computer that created them...I won't be seeing the guy who burned them for a while so unfortunately I can't check either.

I just tried it on a Vista machine though instead of my XP machine and it wouldn't read some of them and others showed as 0 Bytes Free and 0 Bytes Total.

As far as I know the burn speed was 8x and my drive has read discs burned at 8x before so I don't think that's where the problem lies.

If he didn't finalise the disc, could that explain why nothing is showing on My Computer? Is there a way to finalise the discs?
paveyhard, YES disks that have NOT been finalized can be finalized.However they MUST be finalized with the software burning program that created them.I am not certain that they may also have to be done on the same machine that created them. No it is not the disk burning speed that i was referring to with the compatibility observation it was the following: The burner used to burn the originals may have been capable of burning both DVD+ And DVD- blank disks and let US say he chose to use a DVD- disk but your player may only be able to read DVD+ disks. Then you would not be able to access the burned data. The fact that you are seeing that there are "zero bytes free and zero bytes total" indicates that your player is seeing unusable disks insofar as reading or writing options. You have indicated that you can play "some" of the disks your friend created for you and not others. It needs to be determined what the difference in the disks are,the difference in the burning process (if any) was,the difference in the software program used to burn the disks was (if any). It is a bit premature until you find out what the answers to the above questions are but what is the program(s) that you are trying to use to play these disks?truenorth he burned them using the standard drag-and-drop system in Vista - do you know how I can finalise the discs through this?

The disc is DVD-R and my machine reads DVD-Rs fine normally.

I'm trying to view the files through My Computer. Is there another way to view/play the files other than on My Computer? File>Open>D:/ on WMP doesn't show the files either...