cannot open disk

[Anonymous2]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Photography-Interactive-Training-PC/dp/1905707185/ref=...TS+Interactive

I bought this disk a few years ago and it will not run on vista or win 7. My xp machine is dead. can it be backed up to the win 7 computer. Tried dvd shrink and any dvd cloner but they will not open it. Is this a cd rom? It says cb155k. the audio and visual files are SWF - shockwave flash? Small Web Format?.VLC won't play them

[gonca]

It is a CD-ROM. Can you drag and drop the files to the desktop?

[Anonymous2]

It is a CD-ROM. Can you drag and drop the files to the desktop?

yes should i? put them all in a new folder on desktop? And then burn? The files won't play with vlc from desktop

How can you tell it is a cd rom? Yesterday checking the cd on my laptop it said insert proper cd rom even when this was was inserted

[usually_quiet]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Digital-Photography-Interactive-Training-PC/dp/1905707185/ref=...TS+Interactive

I bought this disk a few years ago and it will not run on vista or win 7. My xp machine is dead. can it be backed up to the win 7 computer. Tried dvd shrink and any dvd cloner but they will not open it. Is this a cd rom? It says cb155k. the audio and visual files are SWF - shockwave flash? Small Web Format?.VLC won't play them

The description on Amazon says this is an interactive course on CD. Because it is interactive, it is not just video on a CD-ROM. It is a computer program that plays video segments, and runs from the CD-ROM. Maybe the computer program is incompatible with newer versions of Windows, or the 64-bit versions of them, if that is what you have.

Because the CD-ROM contains a computer program, VLC won't play it and DVD Shrink won't copy it. Dragging all the files and folders to a new folder on the desk top might copy it. Imgburn's "Create image file from disc" might also copy it.

[DB83]

Exoanding on u_q's post, the spec also states that you need IE6? or later which suggests to me that the guts of this are a series of html files.

Browse to the CD in Windows Explorer and look at the CD's contents. Do you see html files ?. If you do can you click on these to open the lessons ?

I assume that you have Flash Player installed on your Win7 machine. If not then install it.

[gonca]

If you can copy it to the desktop, and you can find the program try to run it in compatibility mode if needed.

Hi DB83, long time no speak.

[Anonymous2]

Html files will not run. No compatibility mode option. Want it on a disk to run like cd

[DB83]

Are all the sub-folders copied ? I do not see them in the local HDD list

It is possible that the html files are expecting the javascript .js files to be at a specific place (possibly to prevent copying.

There could also be another hidden file on the CD which any executable looks for. Again a copy-protection measure.

Is there an .exe or .com file on the CD ? Compatability mode is run against the .exe or .com via Windows run.

edit:

You can always look at the html files to see where they are looking for the .js

[roma_turok]

What Autorun.inf file contain?

[Cornucopia]

This sounds like a cd authored in Director or Shockwave. It might have an overarching executable in the form of an exe or dcr (you should check to see if it has one of those). Also, the SWF file capabilities when authored in Dir/Shockwave are considerably different/expanded (Lingo scripts, expandable "Xtra" plugins) compared to SWF when authored in Flash. And, SWF also can contain many main items (text, sprites) that go beyond simple A+V streams seen in FLV and other regular MM container files. Which makes conversion of them to a consumer-oriented A+V media format very difficult.

If this is the case, I would say your best bet is to:

1. Borrow a used XP-era machine (one that is just signficantly better in specs to their recommended base requirements model as listed on the disc)
2. Play the title FROM THE ORIGINAL CDROM (installing/downloading appropriate player ahead of time if necessary)
3. Either do a V+A screencap of the running title (on the same computer) or play out through V+A ports to a separate PC (your own Win7 box?) to cap (using lossless encoding).
4. Trim down ends & re-encode to something appropriate for general viewing.

Scott

[jagabo]

Run the CD on an XP virtual machine.

[Anonymous2]

Are all the sub-folders copied ? I do not see them in the local HDD list

It is possible that the html files are expecting the javascript .js files to be at a specific place (possibly to prevent copying.

There could also be another hidden file on the CD which any executable looks for. Again a copy-protection measure.

Is there an .exe or .com file on the CD ? Compatability mode is run against the .exe or .com via Windows run.

edit:

You can always look at the html files to see where they are looking for the .js

yes all subfolders are copies, see screenshot
WriteFlashJar is an exe jar file. There is also java run time and install flash player exe's

[roma_turok]

What about Autorun.inf file?
The file exist in root directory of the CD
Example of icon:
what is contain?

[Anonymous2]

What about Autorun.inf file?

Is this what you mean? sorry missed your asking that before

[autorun]
shellexecute=start.html

[Main]
Home=index.html
Name=KnowledgeNet
Icon=knet.ico
SizeX=1015
SizeY=685
DisableSysMenu=0

[roma_turok]

When you open start.html from CD with Internet Explorer, what happens?
compatibility view need to be enabled for old websites in Internet explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2536204

[Anonymous2]

When you open start.html from CD with Internet Explorer, what happens?
compatibility view need to be enabled for old websites in Internet explorer

I get a tiny square box with an tiny dot in centre at top left of IE

[roma_turok]

Did you try change emulation to IE 7 or IE 6?:

[Anonymous2]

i do not see the emulation link in IE. I use FF and do not know IE. It is in compatibility mode

[roma_turok]

Did you open with IE?
If you want you can upload CD to Dropbox
and send me link with private message, to solve this

[Anonymous2]

Did you open with IE?
If you want you can upload CD to Dropbox
and send me link with private message, to solve this

Ok first I am going to try virtual box and install xp with the disk from my dead xp laptop
I opened IE but saw no emulation options

[Anonymous2]

Here it is in virtual box, thanks for help guys