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DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - Big Daddy Cool - 12-17-2008
Client has sent me two different DVD-Rs with images on them. Both, upon insertion say "You have inserted a blank dvd, what do you wish to do?" or something like that.
Tried on 3 different machines (G4, G5, Intel), and 4 different drives, all able to read DVDs.
Looking at the dvd itself, there appears to be data burned into it but what gives?
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - Seacrest - 12-17-2008
I've had that happen before.
I believe I solved it by mounting them on a Windows PC.
Something having to do with the disc not being finalized, or wotevs.
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - clay - 12-17-2008
sometimes PC's burn discs in an un-closed session. It's basically a format that allows for repeated writes to do the disc (much like a hard drive or usb flash drive), but the resulting discs are less compatible with other computers as a result. The discs need to be "finalized" or closed in order to be fully compatible with other systems.
Do you have a windows box to try the disc on? That may allow you to read the discs, although you may still need whatever software they used to burn the discs.
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - Racer X - 12-17-2008
they did the disk in a drag and drop packet writting manner. idiots.
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - gabester - 12-17-2008
When prompted, "You have inserted a blank dvd, what do you wish to do?" choose ignore. In Disk Utility verify that it cannot see any filesystems on the disc - if it can, simply select and mount those.
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Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - testcase - 12-17-2008
gabester wrote:
When prompted, "You have inserted a blank dvd, what do you wish to do?" choose ignore. In Disk Utility verify that it cannot see any filesystems on the disc - if it can, simply select and mount those.
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I learn something here every day
. Thanks gabester!
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - Big Daddy Cool - 12-17-2008
Gabester– I ignored and opend disk utility.
Nothing. and under partition scheme it says 'Unformatted'
Unfortunately, my client is fairly computer illiterate.
Re: DVD (images) burned on PC shows up blank on Macs - tronnei - 12-18-2008
Burned with Vista? Trying to read on a Mac with Tiger?
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,558076,558114#msg-558114