Hi, I use windows xp and nero 6 to copy files onto a cdrw as it is more convenient then floppies for large files to copy files to my other comps but they don't show up in dos, it just shows a blank disc. Does anyone know of a udf, or similar, reader that can be used in dos to allow me to copy over the files. Cheers

I only know of UDF Readers for Windows 95 upwards. I think MS-DOS 6.22 can only read ISO 9660 standard CD's with the 8 character Directory and File Protocol ISO 9660 Protocol ISO 9660 is a data format designed by the International Standards Organisation in 1984. It's the accepted cross-platform protocol for filenames and directory structures. Filenames are restricted to uppercase letters, the digits "0" to "9" and the underscore character, "_", eight characters long with a 3 charactor file extention. Nothing else is allowed. Directory names can be a maximum of only eight characters (with no extension) and can only be eight sub-directories deep. Most CD Writers have this standard built in for backward compatability. But it needs to be selected. PowerLoad is part of the Oldfiles Network Please reply with a message to let us all know we are on the right track...

Hi, I tried your suggestion also tried joliet,dos and ascii options but it still couldn't see the discs looks like cdrw discs won't work with dos.

As you are using XP, why not use the inbuilt CD burning software, apart from some early CD Drives 2x/4x the CDRW's should be readable. I drag&drop to CDR have no problem reading the discs on an old 486 with 2x CD drive, though have not tried CDRW discs.

Shove a dvd-rom drive in to replace your cd-rom drive. Does wonders for reading disks burned on a cd-rw drive. Skip