computer recognizing burned disc as audio cd
 

ok i burned a cd for a friend and checked it on my computer and it worked fine.

I gave it to her and it recognizes it as an audio cd with one track, and if you play the track its just static

i checked the disc on another computer and it works fine so i know its a problem with her computer.

if i put the originally cd in it recognizes it as the cd it is and not the audio cd. and other burned cds dont get recognized as audio, but she doesnt have many burned discs to test with


i ran spyware and virus checkers on her comp and got rid of some stuff but that didnt affect it.

she's running win xp home SE on a compaq computer


anyone have any ideas... and lemme know if you need other info... and i'll get it from her.

thanks a bunch

What software did you use to burn the CD with? And I'm assuming that your CD is a data CD?

yah its a data cd, i used alcohol 120 to make an iso and then burn it

Could just be poor reflectivity and weak optics in her drive. Burn another at half the last copy's speed, or lower if your patience allows. All the better if you have another brand of media.

I'll second cyrnel's advice - see if you can grab a different brand CD-R and burn at a slower speed. I can't say I've ever run into that problem before, but I'd suspect the blame resides in her CD-ROM drive. Do you know what brand/model it is?

she said its a sony CRX2155E5

i'll try getting some other media and burning at a slower speed

Any chance you burned it as an executable program or info and she does not have the required program installed so it defaults to audio?

try lowering the speed of the burning as older drives aren't capable of such speeds, try using a different media, and if you have an alternative software then try using that

It sounds like her drive is just OLD and doesn't read CD-Rs. In the first days of CD-R I remember this problem -- they'd read it as a malformed CD-ROM.

well i tried burning it with another brand and burned it at 4x
got the same thing... and its not because its too old to read cdr's, it is a cd burner....



i think i've got a spare cd drive kicking around... i might just give it to her...
or i might install the burning program on her computer and make a copy using the drive and see ifthat helps

ok so i installed alcohol 120% on her computer and made a copy of the original disc on her computer... and when i put in the new copy it was still recognized as an audio disk...

Sounds like you've effectively ruled out the media, software, and your drives. I'm sticking with my first response. Her drive's pickup is weak. You can try carefully cleaning the lense but it's likely the only remedy is another drive.

Does the disk in Question have a copyright protection on it?
Phoenix and a few others have BIOS software that
will prevent a copy of a protected disk from executing.

Or it could be a firmware issue with the CD ROM
I had a similar issue with a DVD RW
the firmware upgrade fixed it.

hmmm i'll check the firmware...
and see what bios she has also...

If it's such an old computer, I'd vote more on the drive itself than the BIOS.