PC CD Not Recognized in my mac

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I have 3 PC Created CD's with Pictures. THey are from 3 different people - 3 different PC's. I can open one of the CD's on my Mac, Not the other 2. THe Porblem CD's says the Disk is not recognized. It will ask me if I want to initialize or ignore or eject. If I ignore, cannot get cd out except by restarting with mouse down.

Any Ideas how to open these and get the Pictures Off?
My Mac: OS 10.4.11, Powerbook, 1 GHz Power PC G4
Firmware up to date.

Thanks
 

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I have 3 PC Created CD's with Pictures. THey are from 3 different people - 3 different PC's. I can open one of the CD's on my Mac, Not the other 2. THe Porblem CD's says the Disk is not recognized. It will ask me if I want to initialize or ignore or eject. If I ignore, cannot get cd out except by restarting with mouse down.

Any Ideas how to open these and get the Pictures Off?
My Mac: OS 10.4.11, Powerbook, 1 GHz Power PC G4
Firmware up to date.

Thanks

What kind of optical drive do you have in your Mac? Some older drives don't support "multi-session", so the disc will need to be finalized before it is readable.
 
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Here are the Mac Specs.

MATSHITADVD-R UJ-815:

Model: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-815
Revision: DWDB
Serial Number:
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 0
Socket Type: Internal



MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815:

Firmware Revision: DWDB
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: No
 
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By the way - The disks I Cannot Read:
one is a Memorex CD-R and other is a Phillips CD-R

The One I could read was a Memorex CD-RW
 
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I knew mac's would have some compatibility problems here and there, but simply getting pictures off a CD? Have you tried on a regular PC? Maybe its the CD's?
 

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