Be sure to have an ISO9660 file system structure, not UDF or anything else, and it'll work, or else it's your media/the drive is picky/needs a good cleaning!

psychz wrote:

Be sure to have an ISO9660 file system structure, not UDF or anything else, and it'll work, or else it's your media/the drive is picky/needs a good cleaning!

I don't think the drive is dirty, it can read other CD-Rs. I just noticed that on boot I get "MIX0014: low level driver error". What does that mean?

* Edit: I think that error is something to do with the sound card I took out some lines from the AUTOEXEC.BAT and just left the set blaster line and the error has gone away.

** Edit: Just found that CDBurnerXP does not use ISO9660 by default. Changed the file system and am now trying to burn another disc.

For troubleshooting purposes, you might want to try burning an audio CD and playing it with an MS-DOS audio CD player.

Set CDBurnerXP to ISO9660 file system and the disc works!

You should give ImgBurn a try.

Another possible issue you might encounter is that some CD-R discs are of poor quality and aren't easily read on older drives. As newer drives got more tolerant of poor media, the quality of media was allowed to slip. I've sometimes had to reburn things on higher quality discs to make them more compatible. However, most drives from the early 2000s are probably pretty good at reading most CDs.

+1 for ImgBurn from here....