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CD-RW detects data CDs as music

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by charliespencer

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I've got a single hard drive on the primary IDE. The CD-RW is the D: drive on the secondary IDE, along with an empty hard drive cartridge caddy. The CD-RW detects data CDs as music CDs. The disk name appears as "Audio CD", and the only file shown is "Track01.cda". I've had the same problem with two different vendor software installation CDs, Roxio and Ghost; these CDs work fine when I install from them over the network. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2.

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by older mycroft

I only ask coz I came across some OEM- includes that were mixed structure [cda and data].

Have you tried actually playing it to see if there's an audio track on them?

by charliespencer

In the meantime I've also tried a Bart-PE boot CD. It gets treated the same way and I KNOW there's no music on it. I've also removed the empty hard drive caddy but that had no effect either. I've also replace the drive with an identical model, and it does the same thing.

Update: Media Player failed when attempting to 'play' the CDs as music.

by older mycroft

I'm sure you can think of someone you might like to 'give' it to . . .

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