Copying JPG files to DVD +R discs

Hi all
With no experience whatever with VISTA I have just run into a problem with
copying JPG files to a blank DVD +R disc using VISTA. I'm just checking
here if the problem described below is common or perhaps I've done something
wrong which is nothing to do with VISTA/Windows XP.

Using a blank DVD +R Disc and a laptop loaded with VISTA I copied approx 700
JPG files from the laptops hard drive to the DVD disc. When finished I
removed the disc then reinserted it into the laptops DVD drive and examined
the contents of the DVD. As expected all the JPG files were on the DVD.
I then removed the DVD from the Laptops drive and inserted it into the DVD
drive of a desktop computer useing WINDOWS XP. Nothing happened !!! I have
used the DVD drive of the desktop many times to burn JPG files to blank DVD
+R discs then read these disks to retrieve specific files just burnt to
these discs. This process on the desktop still works after the problem
described above. The VISTA laptop also still reads the DVD disc described
above and the WINDOWS XP desktop computer still refuses to read the DVD
generated by the laptop.
I can only conclude that there must be an incomatability problem between XP
and VISTA & if so it must be well known by now.

Before I spend many hours experimenting with this problem could someone
please comment re the above. Should there be any problems reading DVD +R
disks generated by VISTA using WINDOWS XP ?
Tnks
John W.

"John WILD" <> wrote in message
news:4b530423$0$32748$ u...
> Hi all
> With no experience whatever with VISTA I have just run into a problem with
> copying JPG files to a blank DVD +R disc using VISTA. I'm just checking
> here if the problem described below is common or perhaps I've done
> something wrong which is nothing to do with VISTA/Windows XP.
>
> Using a blank DVD +R Disc and a laptop loaded with VISTA I copied approx
> 700 JPG files from the laptops hard drive to the DVD disc. When finished I
> removed the disc then reinserted it into the laptops DVD drive and
> examined the contents of the DVD. As expected all the JPG files were on
> the DVD.
> I then removed the DVD from the Laptops drive and inserted it into the DVD
> drive of a desktop computer useing WINDOWS XP. Nothing happened !!! I
> have used the DVD drive of the desktop many times to burn JPG files to
> blank DVD +R discs then read these disks to retrieve specific files just
> burnt to these discs. This process on the desktop still works after the
> problem described above. The VISTA laptop also still reads the DVD disc
> described above and the WINDOWS XP desktop computer still refuses to read
> the DVD generated by the laptop.
> I can only conclude that there must be an incomatability problem between
> XP and VISTA & if so it must be well known by now.
>
> Before I spend many hours experimenting with this problem could someone
> please comment re the above. Should there be any problems reading DVD +R
> disks generated by VISTA using WINDOWS XP ?
> Tnks
> John W.

When you burn any type of file on any type of disk, the disk must be closed
out or it can only be read on the computer that created it.
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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

John WILD wrote:
> I then removed the DVD from the Laptops drive and inserted it into the DVD
> drive of a desktop computer useing WINDOWS XP. Nothing happened !!!

Hi John.

Once putting the cd in the desktop, did you go into My Computer and
check the contents of the cd? When you do so, does any error message
come up if you do not see the pics?

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- Linus Torvalds

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