Mac OS X forum: Opening a PC CD/R on a MAC computer?

CDROM

by mrmacfixit - 8/26/05 4:14 PM

In Reply to: PC CDROM by mrmacfixit

Just got back to the house to check my theory and it is correct.
The Mac will mount a PC CD if the CD is closed. Any commercially produced CD should be finalized. No further burning possible.
For maximum compatibility, burning the CD as an ISO 9660 format CD will ensure that any platform can read it.
Most good CD burning software will guide you in making a cross platform CD. The important thing is to finalize the CD.

Hope you get it to work

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how to see pictures on my mac osX which were put on a cd

by mary loris mills - 7/10/09 5:39 AM

In Reply to: Opening a PC CD/R on a MAC computer? by greggyb40

How to I access pictures on my mac osx which were put on a cd with a pc...windows?

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See the above comments and

by mrmacfixit - 7/10/09 6:23 AM

In Reply to: how to see pictures on my mac osX which were put on a cd by mary loris mills

make sure that the disk has been finalized.

What results do you get when you put the CD into your computer?

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Drive hardware can be an issue

by Fingal - 7/30/09 8:24 AM

In Reply to: Opening a PC CD/R on a MAC computer? by greggyb40

There can be a number of cases where the real issue is the drive that's in the Mac and not the Mac, itself. This can be due to bugs or due to the drive just being out of date.

For example, there was a case, a while back, where a certain model of Pioneer drive had a problem with Verbatim media. It happened that Apple was bundling Pioneer drives at the time and Dell was bundling drives from different manufacturers. When someone in my office bought a bunch of Verbatim media, it appeared that they were compatible with Windows and not with the Mac. This was taken as the explanation until I was able to get an external USB drive, attach it to a Mac and show that it could read and write to the Verbatim media that way.

A more common situation is where the drive hardware you have is not compatible with media past a certain speed rating. The SONY DVD RW DW-U10A drive in my first generation G5, for example, can't read 16X DVDs. Again, the solution is to attach a more recent external drive.

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Possibly,

by mrmacfixit - 7/30/09 9:14 AM

In Reply to: Drive hardware can be an issue by Fingal

but after 4 years I would think it is a moot point.

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