I have this CD-R that i'd burned my photo's onto, however every PC computer (both of which run with Windows XP) that I've tried to view them on have come up with the wrong file names and information. Yet when I view the CD-R on a Mac OS X the right files will show up. Is there a reason why I can't view these on my own PC computer. Is there a way that I can get around it. A program to try and recover the information on the disk has been tried and failed. Will I just have to use the Mac computer and burn everything on to a new disk?

Were these CD's burned on a Mac?

If so:

Unless the person who burned the cd on the Mac specifically instructed the application (Toast, probably) to make the cd PC-compatible, it was probably created in the Macintosh File System, which is not natively readable on a Windows PC. (although the reverse IS true: PC-formatted cd's are readable on a Mac). The files are cross-platform readable, but the cd itself probably is Mac-formatted and therefore unreadable on the PC.

You need to install a third party app such as MacDisk http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3 or MacDrive http://www.macdrive.com/products/macdrive/ to access these sorts of disks.

The CD was burned on a PC computer and somehow will only read on a Mac computer

If you right click the CD in the CD Drive & then click Explore:

What are the file extensions?

like .jpg? they're all supposed to be .jpgs.

sorry for my confusion

but: Are they all .jpg's? (when you look in Explore?)

um.. that's the problem. I can't see them. But they're on the disk. When I click on explore all I get is all the empty folders that shouldn't be there. I know for a fact however that all of the photo's stored on the disk should be .jpg's.

What do you see when you right click the disk then click properties?

Also when you right click a folder and then click properties?

Also what happens when you right click a file or folder then choose "Send to" My Documents? Can you view it from there?

Plus: how were these images created? Was there a MMC device involved?

The disk says that there is 643 MB used and the folder say that they are empty.
Can't send to another folder either (cannot read from the source file or disk) How were they created? These were photo's that I'd taken with a camera then uploaded through a usb port. The program of which was used to burn them to disk was nero express 6.

My current theory is that when you burned them perhaps you set up a Mac associaton that Windows can't see?

If you put the disk in a Mac what are the properties of the files/folders?