Alas, vcd wont play for a unique reason

[mav81]

My problem is slightly different from everyone elses. I put the vcd in my computer drive and the dvd drive doesn't even recognize that there is a disk in the drive. It says, D: is not accessible, device not ready. ANybody have any idea why this is happening? I am running Windows 98. Thanks

[Greg12]

How old is your DVD drive.

Do commerical CD's and DVD's work in it?

If it's old, it might be one of those that weren't built to read CD-R's.

I think the first were designed to be slaves with a CD-ROM being the master.

[Dave B]

Presuming you can read the CD in a different drive (e.g. your burner) AND its not just a dirty CD, possible reasons could be:

Some older drives refuse to read particular media types.

Some drives refuse to read media which has been "overburned"

All you can do is try burning to a different cd-r brand and run the latest firmware patch on the suspect drive.

[mav81]

My computer and my dvd drive are only about a year old. The VCD runs in other computers I have tried. Does anyone know how many regular cd-rs it takes for every one vcd cd? Are they the same, or will I be burning 10 cd's for one vcd disk?

[Shabubu]

I got this problem after I turned off Auto-insert notification with CloneCD (then forgot to turn it back on).