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Hello, I have a book on CD that is done in Acrobat files, and a text file done in Word. If I put it in my iBook or eMac it will not even respond to the CD, but if I take it to a PC computer, it does open. I would have thought that my computers would at least tell me the disc is not readable. Any ideas how I can get my computer to recognize the disc or if it is even possible? Is there any software that will let me read a PC formated CD?
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Reading a CD made on a PC
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Animator411 
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Posted 21 February 2004 - 08:55 PM
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Posted 22 February 2004 - 03:53 AM
Macs can read "standard" peecee files & disks. But without knowing who, what, when, where or how ect..... it is hard to say what the deal is. Most likely the disc itself was formatted in some off the wall, proprietary windows-only crap format.
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Posted 23 February 2004 - 10:15 PM
perhaps a copy of MacLinkPlus Deluxe will do the trick?
http://www.dataviz.c...plus/index.html
Of course, getting Office X for mac will handle the word file... and the pdf's can be opened using Preview or acrobat reader....
sounds like you cant even get the disc to mount on the mac? maclinkplus will fix that....
correct me if im wrong people. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
http://www.dataviz.c...plus/index.html
Of course, getting Office X for mac will handle the word file... and the pdf's can be opened using Preview or acrobat reader....
sounds like you cant even get the disc to mount on the mac? maclinkplus will fix that....
correct me if im wrong people. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Posted 26 February 2004 - 01:38 AM
doggdamac has taken the words right outta my mouth! Put the cd back in the pc... copy the files and burn the cd again in a mactastic format!
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Posted 28 February 2004 - 10:47 AM
I am running Panther. I am just going to take it to a PC at school and transfer it to a USB memory stick. I thought even if it couldn't open the files that I should at least be able to see the CD on the desk top. I have no idea what they used to burn the disc in the first place.
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Posted 01 March 2004 - 03:40 PM
In the olden days (ie, pre OSX), the MacOs was more forgiving of PC formatted disks, and would always mount them. There may be a solution, but I haven't found it myself. Recently, I tried to copy a pc formatted cd, but couldn't even mount the disk: luckily I have a pc that I keep around, and was able to burn a different copy of the disk in question.
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