Windows 10: Old School CD Expert needed! How to read data folder of old 2006 CD-XA MULTI CD Single in...

ASUS Vivobook 15Windows 10ASUS SDRW-08D2S-U Lite Slim DVD-RWI have asked this before and no one was able to suggest anything, this has been going on for a month or so now.This needs an old School CD tech expert plus Windows Expert who knows CD intimatly as well as Windows.I have several Music CD's from 2006 that, as well as the music, have user accessable files such as video, image files and small software apps. The data sections can clearly be seen when you hold the CDs under a light and the data section in around mounting hole. I think this means the data is after the last music track?. The

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Compatibility of old data CD

If I understand you correctly, you have a CD with data, not programs.

I assume that this CD was created ("burned") either by you or an acquaintance and is not a commercial CD.

Please explain what you mean by the CD "ran on Windows 95 and NT 4.0 onwards."

What type of CD is it: CD-R, CD-RW, etc.?

Assuming that this is a non-commercial data CD, there are at least two possibilities why you are not able to read the CD on a Windows 7 computer.

1. The CD drive has failed. If you can read a data CD created on your current Windows 7 system, then the drive is not a problem.
2. The data was written to the CD in a "multi-session" format and the CD was not subsequently "finalized" on the machine that created it.

See the following discussion and try IsoBuster

• How to read old non-finalized CDs
• IsoBuster:
  https://www.isobuster.com/

 

Formating CD for Old Standalone Player

Use steps 1-3 described in post
Formating CD for Old Standalone Player
...download a file, install a program, burn a cd.
Nothing more needed.

 

Can't read old CD in Windows 10 Pro

I have Windows 10 Pro installed on my desktop PC. I also have old CDs that were created on Windows XP and Windows 7.

I cannot read them. Some have pictures and some have files.

Windows 10 File Explorer asks how I want to use the CD (USB flash drive or CD/DVD player). Explorer must think the CDs are blank.

I have searched the internet and also Microsoft and tried suggestions, but nothing has worked.