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Burning DVD from Mac to PC
Name: Cassie Date: May 9, 2006 at 18:53:42 Pacific OS: 10.2.1 CPU/Ram: 800mhz Power PC G4, 768 m Product: IMac
Comment:
We have an IMac running OS 10.2.1 and tried to burn DVD's with photos and images to used on a laptop PC running Windows XP. The laptop says it is unable to read the disk. When I use a CD to burn the same info and put it in it reads just fine and copies the info. I am transferring quite a bit of data-6 DVDs worth-and wondered if there is a way to burn DVDs so they will work on the PC without the laborious process of redoing it all on CD's. Any help would be great here!
Name: Cassie Date: May 10, 2006 at 14:01:10 Pacific
Reply:
Oops, I meant to say 10.2.8. Sorry about that!
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Response Number 2
Name: madmannt Date: May 19, 2006 at 01:24:19 Pacific
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burn them in ISO 9660 format
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Response Number 3
Name: chairman21 Date: June 8, 2006 at 12:34:04 Pacific
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if you have a 15" TFT iMac with a 'SuperDrive' (apple's own brand name for DVD Write/Read optical drives) then these have a high failure rate with the symptoms you describe.
it would be easier to put both machines on an ethernet network and just copy the stuff over...
Or get a firewire DVD burner. You could try installing OS 10.4 and make sure it's not the OS. but i doubt it.
Target mode the iMac and copy files to another mac, where you can burn them to DVD?
Verdict: messy to resolve
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Response Number 4
Name: masterpikey Date: June 27, 2006 at 19:24:22 Pacific
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toast is brilliant for this, it will burn mac/pc hybred disks that are readable in both formats. Alos bear in mind that pc's can't read mac folders (eventhough our good ole macs will pretty much read anything, you suck microsoft), so when your burning files that you intend to use on a pc do NOT put them in a folder, instead just copy the files directly into toast and burn away.
even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day
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