Hi! I have some problem with my CD-ROM. My friend sent a CD to me, but my CD_ROM can not read it.I know he burnt it with Nero cd writer.please help me. tanks peter

Does your CDROM read other CD's without any problem? Sometimes CDROM's, especially older ones, are picky about whether they want to read a burned CDROM or not. Alot of times, just changing brands of CDR fixes the issue. Assuming your CDROM works with other CD's try having him use a different brand.

if your cdrom dosnt normally have issues with burnt cds, try getting your friend to burn it on a slower speed, like 16x... sometimes cds burnt at 48x arent liked by older cd rom units

Was it a CD-R or CD-RW? Are you using Nero too? Was it a sound or a data CD? Derek

peterx if the cd's are not finialize a reg cd-rom want read it.ask your friend did he finialize the cd-r.let us know.

Pete, Zeb is right, i'll just expand on his answer: You have to know whether the CD was finalized or not. A writable CD is "open" when you're writing it and you can go back to it and continue writing at different times until you decide that's all you want on that CD, at which time you would "finalize" the CD. Once the CD has been finalized it has universal FAT (File Allocation Table) table so it is readable on most CD ROMS but until then it's only readable on CD drives which are writable themselves. There are also 2 separate wasy to write a CD and one is for audio and one is for data. When Audio CD's first hit the market they adopted a standard FAT table so that all hardware could play them and they used the best algorithm (compression) available at the time which is 1X (single speed). Of course there are beter algorithms now (MP3) which allow you to compress files approx. 16x more efficiently, unfortunately all the old hardware can not interpret these algorithms so your stuck with your 15 or so songs per CD if you want to play them on old hardware. TIP: The black back CD's seem to work better for music and especially if you burn Playstation games. So if you're not burning Audio CD's to be played on old hardware you would create "data" cd's instead (even MP3 audio files are considered "data" CD's). So unless you have a CD writer yourself you need to be given cd's which are finalized either as an Audio or as a data CD if you want to be able to use them. ciao, wired

Hi! The cd is R/W and he has burnt both music and data in it.I do not have cd writer. Tanks Peter