[P1] Switcher...

[Pat D. Stephens]

Joe, Jack and Peter,

She burned a second CD for me using the 'standard' method that Roxio 
said could be read by nearly all PC's and when I inserted it in my CD 
drive, my computer whirred for a little time and nothing showed up.  I 
did a search from within Word for it and never did find it...we spent 
about an hour on it and then gave up.  I don't think she did close it, 
tho'...could that be the problem?  Her Gateway did see it and showed 
the files on it.

I'm afraid I lost ground on this little show!  Any thoughts about why 
my iBook didn't see the disk?

I'm not too confident that she really knows much about burning, but I 
sure don't know how to use her computer!

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, guys,

Pat
On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Joe Jones wrote:

> What format is the CD in?
>
> If she has burned this CD with some strange method on the PC then you 
> won't be able to open it, but the standard CD format is pretty much 
> that - standard.
>
> If she has made the CD without closing it so that she can add more 
> sessions to it at a later date then you might have trouble (although 
> Mac OS X can read multisession disks). Macs can also read PC CD-ROMs.
>
> See if she can burn a straight forward data CD for you.
>
> Joe
>
> On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 19:49 Europe/London, Pat D. Stephens 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who is seriously thinking of switching.  But, I tried 
>> to open her backup CD to find and print a Word document for her and 
>> it tells me that the iBook cannot read the CD.  It gave me three 
>> choices, ignore, cancel or initialize.  I knew it was her only 
>> backup, so I just ejected it.  Is there a way for me to get my Word 
>> to find and read her Word?  If so, how?
>>
>> Pat