I’ve got a Windows XP laptop (New), and a Windows 95 desktop (Very
old)
and I want to bring some basic Word documents over from the laptop to
the desktop using a CDRom (Please don’t recommend a Floppy A)

So I burnt these Word documents onto a CD using the laptop - no
problem so far, then I tried to read the CD using the Windows 95
desktop computer and it says "D: Not accessable - The device is not
ready"

And yes, I clicked "Retry" many times with no success.
The disc is clean with no scratches, and the disc is readable on the
laptop, so that cancels out that, does anyone know what could be the
problem?

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The CD drive on the desktop may be too old, and therefore not
"multi-read"....meaning it cannot read homemade "burnt" discs. It could also be
that the drive is dirty and needs to be cleaned using an inexpensive audio CD drive
cleaning disc. The drive may also be defective.

Can you read *any* CD at all on the desktop drive? Try reading a factory made CD,
or playing an audio CD. Do they work?

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"Matt22" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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What procedure did you use to create the CD? For maximum compatibility you
should be creating a single session, closed ISO 9660 standard CD-ROM. This
means you must use CD writing software - if you are set up to drag and drop
files and folders onto your CD drive in order to save them to CD, that's the
wrong sort of recording for the other machine to understand.

Even with a closed single session ISO 9660 CD you might still have
compatibility problems. Have you confirmed that drive can read other
recordable CDs?
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"Matt22" <UseLinkToEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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"Jeff Richards" wrote:
Yes I did drag-and-drop the files, so you are saying if I use
something like Nero to burn the Word documents on then the other Win
95 machine will be able to read it?

"Matt22" <DoNotEmail@WindowsForumz.com> wrote in message
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Yes, *IF* the CD drive in the old computer is capable of reading recordable discs at
all....as I mentioned earlier, some older drives will not be able to read anything
but factory discs.
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