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by stykfigure

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A friend recently purchased a Dell PC running XP. While I was over cleaning all the Dellware crap off of it, I ran into a snag. The CDs that I brought would not display in Windows Explorer. It autoplays the Image Download and does nothing to display the contents beyond that, just acts like I never clicked the drive letter. I checked to see if the window was hung, and it still showed processing I don't think it was racking up CPU% like a hung app either. I tried another CD just to see if the one I had just burned had problems, which is possible. The same results with the other CD. I tried using to keep autoplay from running (couldn't remember where the Regkey was to disable), and this did stop the Autoplay, but still did not display the contents on the 2nd CD. I tried the 1st CD with this method, and it just kept 'reading' like it was hung. I decided to try viewing the contents sans UI (DOS), and could view the contents with no problem on both CDs. I thought maybe Nero had added a format to it making it unreadable w/o Nero installed, so I installed it. Still no luck with using the UI to display the contents. This problem appears to only be with CDs at this point. I have set folder options to allow me to view all (including sys and ext) files. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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by nz_justice

If the CD's are from sony then they might not display. They won't display because sony developed this anti piracy program that installs itself on your computer with out your knowledge and stops you from reading the cd with anything but there software program, this broke the IDMA (might not be the correct acronym) and has landed sony in some trouble.

In dos UI, use nero command line commands to make an iso of the cd's then use something like Daemon tools to run them.

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/cdr_software/cdr_tools/daemon_tools.cfm

by hillbilly tech

What type of disk drive does it have. This cd may consider a dvd or cdr which the cd drive may not play. does this happen on all CD. Have You tried reinstalling the drivers. Maybe it got corrupted. Try contacting DELL AWARD WINING SUPPORT (HA HA) if all else fells.

by stykfigure

OK...it appears that it was just a case of the old ID 10T error. After stopping the Autorun service and trying a couple other things that didn't fully work, I was able to explore the CDs. Had I have read a little close to the WHOLE paragraph in the "Camera and Image Upload" window, I would have seen the part that mentione d that Advanced Users can view the contents by clicking here...DUH. Was pretty distressing because I always change the folder options to view hidden, system, etc. Unfortunately, that did not work in this case. I don't know if it was using the Advanced Users link that reset a flag allowing me to right-click/Explore or what. In the end it did work though. Thanks for the suggestions. I wish I could give you both points, but I don't think I can. So to be fair, I will give you a big THANKS.

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