Laptop help please

Phyzelda

Sorry, but I'm being a bit dumb I am trying to get a disc to play in my laptop and it's not even recgonizing it when I put it in the drive.

I have Vista and the requirements of the disc are:

Minimum:
CPU 1.4GHz P3 equivalent or great
Graphics 800 x 600 (16 bit) with 64Mb RAM
memory 256 or greater
O/S Windows 98 or later
DirectX5 installed

Recommended system requirements

CPU 2.0 GHz or greater
Graphics 800x600 (24bit) with 128Mb RAM
Memory 256 or greater
O/S windows 2000/XP
DirectX 7+ installed

Does this mean it won't work because my system is vista?

Thanks

NiftyDigits

Disc? What disc?

Phyzelda

It is a PC CD-Rom

onzey

Have you played any disks in the laptop drive before?

grumpycrab

Phyzelda wrote: »

It is a PC CD-Rom

Good try Nifty :-) I'm guessing its a Music CD (as you are trying to "play" it!?). Vista had problems auto-running optical media I think.

Try browsing to it (from Computer). Then right-mouse click the device and see if "Play" is an option.

NiftyDigits

grumpycrab wrote: »

Good try Nifty :-) I'm guessing its a Music CD (as you are trying to "play" it!?). Vista had problems auto-running optical media I think.

Try browsing to it (from Computer). Then right-mouse click the device and see if "Play" is an option.

PC CD ROM sounds more like it could be some kind of content CD. Language tutorial perhaps. But I gave up after post #3.

Phyzelda

No it's actually a British Dressage CD Rom actually called Equitest Advantage Gold.

"This easy-to-use CD-ROM has been designed by riders for riders, to learn and perform a better dressage test through visualisation, accuracy and repetition. All tests can be printed in diagram-plus-notes format. CD-ROM"

Didn't think it would matter for it actually was. I've used the drive loads before. The disk works in my work PC, just can't get it to work in my laptop which I need it too

grumpycrab

Can you browse to the contents of the CD? eg click on Computer, then (or whichever drive your CD is). Can you see the files? Can you list them here (assuming there aren't too many at the "top level").

NiftyDigits

Try installing either Media Player Classic - Home Cinema or VLC Media Player. Then you can pop in to the interface to choose Play Disc or similar.

Phyzelda

Thank you, I shall give it a try later