Re: Recover old format images
 

My point is that the user could see the disc and it's contents, whereas you can't at the moment. A while ago I transferred files from CD-R discs written from 2004 and before. Windows 10 could see them because of the common standard file system.
IIRC there is an issue with writeable CDs(CD-R and CD-RW), where if the disc hasn't been "closed" properly after writing to it, it can be the luck of the draw as to whether any other CD/DVD drive can read the discs. Using the same physical drive that was used to write to it, should work.
If the drive can see other discs, then I'm not sure what the "regedit route" might achieve.

Re: Recover old format images
 

They are still 15 years old

Re: Recover old format images
 

One thing I am going to try first is to let a mate of mine who has a couple of PC’s still running XP try them out.

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So was the blank disc I tried.;)

Re: Recover old format images
 

Update..

I was going to try a couple of suggestions such as altering hidden file views etc, slotted in one of the errant dvd's and the darned thing only loaded up and ran.?????


I am going to try and extract the images I want to keep and copy them elsewhere.

Thanks to everyone who replied, fingers crossed I can get the stuff off the discs before they corpse again.:)

Jim.

Re: Recover old format images
 

If the Drive and DVD are marginal a change of temperature in either can make the disk readable.

Hope you can rescue the rest of the pictures.

Re: Recover old format images
 

Really strange, all four of these discs where basically invisible to the PC and yet the same drive could see and open more recent discs and even blank discs stored in exactly the same place and temperature as the old ones. :confused: