CD not displaying data

book12

On behalf of my friend, the following problem has occured:

He has a lot of data on the CD that he burnt at home. Now at uni, he tried to put the CD in the computer, and when going to Windows Explorer and selecting the CD-ROM drive (drive E in his case), nothing is showing up on the CD. Why is that? By the way, it's not a blank CD. I tried it out for him, and the same problem occurs.

PasturesNew

Not sure what you mean by "I tried it out for him, the same problem occurs", it reads as if you put the CD in your PC and it saw no files either. Which would imply the CD is empty

What happens if he tries:
Start, All Programmes, Accessories, Command Prompt

Then types:
E:
dir *.*

That should give him a listing of all the files on the E: drive

book12

The CD is not empty, as the music files could be played on a stereo, radio, CD player, etc...

The CD works on his home computer, but not on his own computer in halls.

ABH_3

You could possibly try to interogate the disk using:

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/IsoPuzzle
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
or more likely ISOBuster: http://www.isobuster.com/

HTH

C_Ronaldo

Are the cables in correctly inside the pc, i had a prblem with trying to copy a cd id bought to my mp3 player, id opened the pc up and id checked to see if the cables were plugged in right and its fine now,

bat999

Hi
Does his Uni computer play other discs OK?

FallingDownMan

If he has not 'closed' the compilation it may not show up on other machines. How did he burn it in the first place?

Is it a CD-RW, by any chance?