Glad I could help, at least a little.
Note that that program uses its OWN methods to access the drive
and can see things Windows can not...
What you see is "real" and the correct stuff...)

When you see different stuff on the laptop, it is a limitation of Windows
and the installed Windows drivers...

According to what you see, you "should" be able to install a packet
reader driver right from that disk... UNLESS they do not recommend
that for the OS in question. You have to read the instructions for your
programs, etc.  (I never tried this in XP!!!)

I tried to write a longer answer, but if you do not know how to start
a data project with your own burning program (one that I have never
used), I am at a loss for words...

Even using the built-in WindowsXP burning software "should" work,
but everything in Windows is "so" subject to subtle interface changes
that step by step instructions usually have to follow getting the computer
back to a default GUI.  Mine is so different, I'm not sure what default
looks like anymore. (Plus my system has multiple "hooks" installed by
a number of programs of this type that might make step by step instructions
a exercise in futility...)

Here is how to get the MS instructions.
In XP, hit Start, Help and Support.
In the Search box type     burning
In Pick a task, select (and open) -- Copy files and folders to a CD
See if their instructions work.

              Good luck.
                                             Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "Loy Pressley"
> Thanks for the program recommendation.  I downloaded it and it says that
> there is no problem with the files on the CD.  I don't think that I have
> a bad burn.  I brought the disk back to my house and put it back on my
> computer.  It shows that all the files that I put on the disk are there
> and readable.
>
> I think that when the laptop disk was erased and all programs
> reinstalled, the files to read a UDF disk were left off.  I say this
> because I have burned numerous CD-R disks on this computer, mostly with
> family pictures and things such as that, and all these disks were
> readable with no complaints on all other other computers on which they
> were run.
>
> Where can I get a packet reading/writing program for the XP machine?
>
> In my Easy CD Creator 6 folder on my computer I have the files
> UdfrChk.exe, udfrinst.zi, and a folder named MRW which contains
> autorun.inf and mrfinst.exe.  If I remember correctly, these are the
> only files that show up when you try to read the disk on her laptop.  If
> I put these files on the laptop hard disk and run the .exe files would
> that install the software so the laptop could read my CD-R disk?
>
> If that won't work, how do I burn a CD-R using the file system you
> recommended?  I looked at a CD-R that I use all the time to backup
> files.  I copy the files to the CD-R using widows Explorer.  When I look
> at that file using the software I downloaded, it is the same type of
> file system as is on the CD-R that can't be read by the laptop.
>
> Thanks, Rick, for the reply.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Loy
>


> Rick Glazier wrote:
>
>> You might have just gotten a bad burn, or the reader drive
>> does not "like" the brand of disk you used...
>>
>> But more likely, it sounds like you might have used DirectCD
>> or Universal Disk Format (UDF), a "packet writing" type of burning...
> <SNIP for brevity>

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