This may seem like a simple answer but it may be the case...

It could just be:

a) the Acer's fault - I have seen quite a few older CD-ROMs that did not
work with CDR discs, yet would work fine with a normal pressed CD.
 While CDR discs should work in everything perhaps these older drives
have a weaker laser and they have a hard time reading the color
difference of CDR versus actual pits on a pressed disc.

b) the disc itself...  Try burning it different, like Mode1 / Disc At
Once (DAO.)  Maybe switch brand CDRs.

I would suggest you replace the CD-ROM if it is older, you can pick them
up fairly cheap.  (If you have an old consumer model Acer it may look
ugly ;-).

I hope this is of some help...

Stefan Schull


Jim Cooley wrote:

>My Iomega burner produces CD's that can be read by my Hitachi CD reader. However, the ACER CD reader on another machine cannot read them. Does anyone have information about burner-reader compatibility?
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