OT: Mac data DVD to PC?

kdm wrote on 10/14/2005, 1:22 PM

I've tried burning a DVD-R with data from two different Macs (one laptop running OSX 10.4, the other a dual G4 desktop running 10.2.6) - the DVD-Rs are unreadable on two different PCs, both running Win XP (Pro on one, probably Home on the other). Has anyone ever run into this? The DVD burned on 10.4 will show the file, but with no filetype, and when trying to copy, Windows says it is corrupt. From the OSX 10.2 machine, all DVD-Rs I've tried show nothing in WinXP - one PC changes the DVD-R Drive designation to CD Drive when the disk is inserted.

I've also tried to get Disc Copy to burn an MS-DOS DVD, but it quits saying the disc won't mount properly after burning, then it ejects the blank.

I have no problems with other DVDs (movies, DVDs burned on my PC, etc). I've talked to people who say they do this all the time with no problem, but haven't found anyone with an idea why this would happen. I've also tried 2X and 8X DVDs. No luck.

Any ideas? I'm hoping it's just a simple user error on my part, but two of the three I tried were burned by other people.

Thanks!

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Coursedesign wrote on 10/14/2005, 1:50 PM

You need special software to do this.

Do a search in this forum on where to download free evaluations of the best commercial products.

Or use MacDrive 6, worked well for me to receive media from Mac heads.

kdm wrote on 10/14/2005, 2:52 PM

Thanks for the reply. MacDrive is the solution. Somehow it didn't occur to me that DVD-Rs would be a different data burn than CDRs - I've burned ISO compatible CDRs to transfer no problem. I think the ISO extension is part of OSX - I loaded Joliet to use with OS9. For some reasonI assumed DVD data discs would follow suite in OSX.