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by jla Mar 13, 2003 last reply May 31, 2003

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Hopefully, someone can help point me in the right direction on this one.
I was given a Data CD by one of our users, and told "I can't open this, but the person that sent it said she could."
The facts thus far are:
It was burned on a windows machine (unknown OS), and is in CDFS format. It was created using "Create CD", which i assume means Adaptec's product, though I can't be sure. It refuses to mount on Windows 2000 or NT machines, and under the newest XP machine I have access to, the onlyinfo I can get is that the name of the disc (YEM-2003) is evident, it claims to contain 60 MB of data (but no visible files, on disc, or desktop), and XP reports that the format is CDFS. Since this is potentially an important disc for one of our customers, and i cant get any more information, I was hoping that someone could point me to a utility or technique that would allow me to retrieve and/or open what's on that CD. Anyone?

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by thechas Mar 13, 2003

From what I quickly found, CDFS is a Linux CD data format.

Perhaps the person who made the CD was running one of the WalMart "Lindows" PCs.

Here is a link to a CDFS driver.

http://www.iyonix.com/32bit/CDdriver.shtml

Chas

by jla Mar 13, 2003

From what i see, that's not a driver of any sort, but a description of ATAPI RISC calls and low-level info. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see any type of windows-capable drivers.

by ann777 Mar 13, 2003

If you look at the properties of any CD.. you will see CDFS (Compact Disc File System).

Check your Windows Explorer and go to Tools --> Folder Options --> View and in the lines that apply: check Show all Files, and uncheck all of the items that say "Hide"

If the above fails to show anything on the cd, then I'd try creating a folder on your local hdd and copy the entire cd onto your folder. Open Windows Explorer and right click on the folder and uncheck "hidden" and uncheck "read only". See if that works.

If all fails, then something is wrong with that cd-- maybe the TOC (Table of Contents) did not get written properly.

by jla Mar 17, 2003

Nope; Windows doesn't even see it as a valid volume, so there's nothing to copy, or set properties on.

by mike jones Mar 13, 2003

50 english pounds says that the user created the file using DirectCD and didn't close the CD properly.

Therefore you need to have direct CD and a CD Writer on your machine to see and finalise the CD.

by jla Mar 17, 2003

Actually, I have a number of machines that have both direct CD, and CreateCD 4 and 5, and none of it seems to make a difference. What bugs me is that the person who created the thing swears up and down that "it works on her machine!!"

by d_v ant Mar 14, 2003

Try getting the free UDF volume reader from Roxio and see if you can read the CD after installing it. It allows you to read CDs that have been created with DirectCD.

http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ecdc/software_updatesv4.jhtml

Be sure to remove any spaces from the URL after pasting.
The UDF reader is at the bottom of the page....