01-30-2010, 12:01 PM

I've inserted an old Windows CD that has a data track and 10 audio tracks. I'm trying to get access to the data track. But it's popping up as an audio CD on my Snow Leopard MacBook, and I can't access to the data track, or even see it in Finder at all (all Finder shows me is "Audio2, Audio 3, etc." whereas the data track is Track 1). Help?

01-30-2010, 12:25 PM

What do you have set in your SysPrefs > CDs & DVDs? I don't operate SL, but in Tiger one can establish settings to have an audio disk ignored or opened with another application. With Ignore, hopefully the disk should appear on the desktop, from where you can 2x-click/open it to get at the data file.

01-30-2010, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by hughvane

What do you have set in your SysPrefs > CDs & DVDs? I don't operate SL, but in Tiger one can establish settings to have an audio disk ignored or opened with another application. With Ignore, hopefully the disk should appear on the desktop, from where you can 2x-click/open it to get at the data file.

That actually WORKED! Thanks a lot! Now, I have a new problem: This Windows CD is an installer CD for a game. When the game installs (on Windows), it installs a folder to the hard drive that contains two large files. I can't just see these files when I browse the disk. Any idea of how to go about finding them? I mean, they've GOTTA be there...

01-30-2010, 01:13 PM

Short answer - I don't know. I can guess however that the two large files are in a format the MacOS doesn't recognise, or they're hidden (invisible), or that they're in some way locked to deny access, ie. read-only.