HELP: Vista only reading SOME files on XP burned DVD?!

This is the strangest thing I've seen.

Burned a DVD ROM of pics and videos on my laptop (Inspiron 9300)
running some form of DLA Software and it worked just fine. I can read
them just fine on my laptop.

Stick them into a vista machine and the disc reads but 1/2 the files
are gone and it's consistent - not a disc read error - There are no
videos - there are missing pictures...

It's as if the VISTA drivers are incomplete... anyone hear of this
symptomology and have a fix?

Thanks!


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Can they be viewed on a third system? What file types are affected here?

DVD back-ups tend to decay surprisingly quickly in my experience. I
wouldn't *trust* CD or DVD back-ups longer than a month if it was something
I cared about. Hard drives are surprisingly cheap. =\

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"pstone" <> wrote in message
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>
> This is the strangest thing I've seen.
>
> Burned a DVD ROM of pics and videos on my laptop (Inspiron 9300)
> running some form of DLA Software and it worked just fine. I can read
> them just fine on my laptop.
>
> Stick them into a vista machine and the disc reads but 1/2 the files
> are gone and it's consistent - not a disc read error - There are no
> videos - there are missing pictures...
>
> It's as if the VISTA drivers are incomplete... anyone hear of this
> symptomology and have a fix?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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I'm sure the DLA system (Sonic) has alot to do with it - it's Dell'
"Beta" so there you go - What's odd is that it was made on a Del
laptop and being read on a Dell media center w/vista w/the missin
files. The missing files are not a disc error, it's the way vista i
decoding the UDF structure of the burn which is all driver based whic
is why I'm hoping there's some sort of known issue with Vista and it'
inability for it not to read directory structures properly.

Yes, I'm jumping to conclusions that it's a Vista problem cause 99 ou
of 100 times, it is ;-

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On Thu, 1 May 2008 21:22:57 +0530, pstone <> wrote:

>
>I'm sure the DLA system (Sonic) has alot to do with it - it's Dell's
>"Beta" so there you go - What's odd is that it was made on a Dell
>laptop and being read on a Dell media center w/vista w/the missing
>files. The missing files are not a disc error, it's the way vista is
>decoding the UDF structure of the burn which is all driver based which
>is why I'm hoping there's some sort of known issue with Vista and it's
>inability for it not to read directory structures properly.
>
>Yes, I'm jumping to conclusions that it's a Vista problem cause 99 out
>of 100 times, it is ;-)

check the format of the files. NTSC or PAL. I've taken and burned both toa
DVD, and ONLY the ATSC will play.
You can burn both formats to the same DVD.
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I'm unaware of any problems in this arena. What happened when you tried it
on another machine?

The nice thing about it being "a Vista problem" is that a kajillion users
use Vista, so when there are problems, there's always lots of helpful to
help identify those and get them fixed. I would expect that if there were
UDF parsing errors that Sonic or other interested party would have already
raised the issue with Microsoft, but that's just me.

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"pstone" <> wrote in message
news...
>
> I'm sure the DLA system (Sonic) has alot to do with it - it's Dell's
> "Beta" so there you go - What's odd is that it was made on a Dell
> laptop and being read on a Dell media center w/vista w/the missing
> files. The missing files are not a disc error, it's the way vista is
> decoding the UDF structure of the burn which is all driver based which
> is why I'm hoping there's some sort of known issue with Vista and it's
> inability for it not to read directory structures properly.
>
> Yes, I'm jumping to conclusions that it's a Vista problem cause 99 out
> of 100 times, it is ;-)
>
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hmmm.. perhaps I'm not making sense - the files (irrelevant to ntsc/pal)
are now in the folders. They're not being read in the directory location
of the disc. Works find on my laptop though - Vista is not reading the
TOC of the directory properly...


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On Fri, 2 May 2008 01:45:03 +0530, pstone <> wrote:

>
>hmmm.. perhaps I'm not making sense - the files (irrelevant to ntsc/pal)
>are now in the folders. They're not being read in the directory location
>of the disc. Works find on my laptop though - Vista is not reading the
>TOC of the directory properly...

I would say see what format the DVD is.
Only way to do that is on a machine that it works on.
then get the properties.
You might be able to get properties from the machine it won't work on, but I
think you'll most likely get errors or gobbledygook, best guess by a machine.

I use Vista HP, on a desktop. If the 1st file is PAL, it craps the search
facility for the ENTIRE DVD. You can't get a directory if the 1st file isPAL.
Also what program on the laptop reads the DVD ?, copy it to the other machine,
and use it with Vista.

IE: Some DVD's I used to think would ONLY run from the desktop, and not on the
TV/DVD player.

Because that player doesn't do PAL. Nero handles most anything.
I traced the problem to my DVD writing software.

I had the ADD original files to DVD if possible, not if it's in PAL format it
isn't possible.

I had TV format automatic. Doesn't work if you have PAL or NTSC equipment. I
forced it to NTSC.

But I have no idea what the EXACT problem on your end is. I'm just throwing out
possible sources of problems.
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"pstone" <> wrote in message
news...
>
> This is the strangest thing I've seen.
>
> Burned a DVD ROM of pics and videos on my laptop (Inspiron 9300)
> running some form of DLA Software and it worked just fine. I can read
> them just fine on my laptop.
>
> Stick them into a vista machine and the disc reads but 1/2 the files
> are gone and it's consistent - not a disc read error - There are no
> videos - there are missing pictures...
>
> It's as if the VISTA drivers are incomplete... anyone hear of this
> symptomology and have a fix?


If the machine making the CD had a program allowing you to just drag files
to the CD like a hard drive, you will need that same program installed on
any other machine where you want to read the CD.

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