CD burnt in vista not working on XP

Since I was tired of the slow speeds of vista and I was getting a ton of blue
screens because my network card was not compatible with it, I uninstalled
windows vista and went back to XP.

That all worked fine, however I backed up a few of my files onto a CD-R with
vista. Now those files cannot be read by my computer that is now running on
XP. The disk is simply shown to be empty and with no available space.

Is there any way I can get to these files because some of them are important?

Thanks

"dave84" <> wrote in message
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> Since I was tired of the slow speeds of vista and I was getting a ton of
> blue
> screens because my network card was not compatible with it, I uninstalled
> windows vista and went back to XP.
>
> That all worked fine, however I backed up a few of my files onto a CD-R
> with
> vista. Now those files cannot be read by my computer that is now running
> on
> XP. The disk is simply shown to be empty and with no available space.
>
> Is there any way I can get to these files because some of them are
> important?
>
> Thanks


You may need to read the disc into a Vista machine - either by reinstalling
or if someone else you know runs Vista, and then burn them to a new disc
using a different format.

They were perhaps burned using UDF 2.5 'Live File System', which isn't the
default but may be the situation - in which case they won't be readable on
XP.

This article may help

Which CD or DVD format should I use?
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...06cbe1033.mspx

--
Jon

Try extracting them with IsoBuster.
--
Paul


"dave84" wrote:

> Since I was tired of the slow speeds of vista and I was getting a ton of blue
> screens because my network card was not compatible with it, I uninstalled
> windows vista and went back to XP.
>
> That all worked fine, however I backed up a few of my files onto a CD-R with
> vista. Now those files cannot be read by my computer that is now running on
> XP. The disk is simply shown to be empty and with no available space.
>
> Is there any way I can get to these files because some of them are important?
>
> Thanks