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laptop doesnt read cd-rw
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Posted by: RBK25
i had recently burned images (from digital cam) onto a cd-rw. i put that cd-rw into every computer and i can view them, but when i place it into my dvd rom(not rewritable) on my laptop it will:
1. only show a couple images
2.freeze and not open up anything
3.show an error message that the disk is not formatted for windows (something like that)
thank you
i have one other off the topic question i thought of while i am posting. when i am downloading a program onto my dads computer i get the message
"You do not have sufficient privileges to complete the installation
for all users of the machine. Log on as administrator and then retry
the installation."
i know that i need to log into the computer as administrator but he has know idea what the password is and there is know way that he will let me reformat. is there any other way around this. i tried rockxp but it never showed the user passwords.
thanks
Posted by: Antti2004
It could be that
1) The DVD Rom is old and cannot handle RW CDs, or -/+ burnings
2) You DVD Rom needs driver upadate
3) Your OS is giving you problems, never defraged, or the registery cleaned?
4) You are missing image editor, DVD viewer program
5) Your laptop has chipset driver (sofware) problem
6) Something has been removed before this problem???
Hope these gives some ideas to look at. 
Posted by: RBK25
i know for sure that it is not number 3 and 4(i have office 2003 image viewer, so that would work right?). here is the link to my labtop that contains updates for my exact model. doesnt look like anything of those updates will help. what do you think.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/...Model&x=22&y=13
how would i check to see if i have a chipset driver problem.
Posted by: RBK25
i finally burnt the images onto a regular cd-r from the cd-rw with another computer and i was able to view them on my labtop. let me know if you can make sense of that or if there is an update that i can do.
thanks
Posted by: Antti2004
That site of Toshiba seem so have LAN, modem Display, BIOS and sound drivers, what you need is the user manual and check the specs. The chipset drivers are the north and south bridges that have effects on the devices you have connected to the laptop. WiIndows will have its own equivalent and most commonly used ones not the correct ones to the motherboard (well there are so many motherboard arround). In all the cases when one installs Win XP there is a option to check that the PC/Laptop has all the needed 'subroutines' (drivers and devices) installed if not then one have to use the update option via microsoft to download the relevant software patches.
Nero and Roxy are good CD/DVD burning softwares, especially the latest ones, the early ones can cause problems like not finding the CD/DVD Rom.
Windows own burner is not the best.
Reading that you got it working, to me means that there was a configuration or 'finger fault'.
But ... good that you go it working.
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