Hi Peter Glad it was an easy one :o) As Ronni mentioned you can do it on the Mac side, so you may be able to do it on the Windows side as well.
Re Drive formats,... Won't go into the long story of it,..but Apple had the first DVD-R drives in their "consumer" machines, and DVD+R used to be more common in the Windows world, once they added DVD Burners to their machines. Then the manufacturers got sick of making both and came out with the DVD±R drives which would do everything,...then along came Dual Layer and we got DVD±R DL. Quite a good read on disc formats here,.... <http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/media/dvd-formats.htm> But glad it's working. :) Kind Regards Daniel On 25/9/10 1:13 PM, "Curtis Peter" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Daniel > Thank you, that was the answer. The DVD drive in the laptop only reads the + > disks! > You would think there would be some way you can tell, or some info on the > laptop to tell you that this was the case. > Regards > Peter > > On 25/09/2010, at 12:32 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> >> Hi Peter >> >> What discs are you using? >> DVD-R or DVD+R? >> The Mac's superdrives are DVD±R (so will do all, read and write). >> But if the laptop is only one type, then it may not read the other. (eg if >> you burn DVD-R and it only reads DVD+R). >> The original disc doesn't have some form of copy protection on it? Sometimes >> it will look like it's allowing you to do it, but there are some hidden >> files that stop it. >> >> That's all the things I can think of for now. >> >> About to get some sleep as just finished working about 45 hours straight,... >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Kind Regards >> Daniel >> >> >> On 25/9/10 12:10 AM, "Curtis Peter" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Daniel >>> I must be doing something wrong! I've done all that as explained but it >>> doesn't work. >>> It is a DVD containing a series of geological maps to be read/displayed on a >>> pc laptop. >>> I put it in the Toast, choose copy, select DVD. >>> It goes through the process of reading and copying the original, ejects and >>> asks for the blank disk, get that and copies onto the disk. finalises and >>> ejects the disk. >>> But when I put it in the pc laptop, it won't read or display the >>> information. >>> It's done it to two different disks now. >>> Reads the originals no problem, but not the copies! >>> Regards >>> Peter >>> On 24/09/2010, at 10:56 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On 24/9/10 10:50 PM, "Curtis Peter" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Everyone >>>>> Using Toast 10 (Thanks to Daniel and MacUpdate) I seem to remember from >>>>> the >>>>> distant past that one could copy pc disks, not files but a direct copy of >>>>> a >>>>> pc >>>>> disk. >>>>> I can't seem to do this, I've looked at User Guide without success. >>>>> Is this possible? So far my attempts are unsuccessful. >>>>> Does anyone know if it can be done? >>>>> Regards >>>>> Peter >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Peter >>>> >>>> It's in "Disc Copy" choice:- >>>> <http://www.roxio.com.au/enu/products/toast/titanium/copy.html> >>>> <http://www.askdavetaylor.com/copy_dvd_on_mac_os_x_using_toast.html> >>>> >>>> Kind Regards >>>> Daniel >>>> --- >>>> Daniel Kerr >>>> MacWizardry >>>> >>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >>>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>> >>>> >>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
