Mac wont read CD

[dave1234]

I have a data CD that was made on a PC using Easy CD Creator. When I put it in my mac it saiz"you have inserted a disk containing no Mac os X volumes. Then i can eject, initialize or OK. Is there any way I can reac the information on this CD?

 

[Eniregnat]

Dirt on the CD, solar or IR exposure. It could be a bad or poor burn. The burner could be bad or your CD-ROM could have issues. A Mac should not have any problems using CDs burned from EasyCD Creator. (It is one of the programs that I use at work and I take the data CDs home and they work just fine on my old iTang.) Some copy-protected disks are harder to copy than others, but you’re not doing that, so this is a moot point. Your Mac should read multi-session disks, but I would turn this option off so that the CD is “finalized” (sometimes this helps). Poor CD blanks may also be the culprit.

Below is a segment from another link. I’m just to busy/lazy to rewrite it. It might also help.


From thread https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22986 :

I agree- start with cleaning the disks.
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From somebody that works with a lot of DVDs and CDs: The statistic was somewhere around 11 years of constant reading before a normal pressed CD would experience significant data loss. For CDRs/RW it is faster, but simple storage and normal use shouldn't degrade the disk significantly. Disks with a faster burn time, i.e. "Record at up to 40x" have dyes that are more sensitive to radiation and disks with slower burn in times "..12x,8,4,2,1" have less sensitive inks. Leaving a disk out in the sun can cause permanent erasure and data loss. Also, some disks are susceptible to data loss when frozen, as the disk is a compost, the sandwiched materials can delaminate under extreme thermal strain. Some other possible reasons for failure is incompatible format (usually not a problem for a Mac), lack of a catalog track, incomplete burn in, poor/failed burn in or poor/failed read due to burner problems. Burners/readers do have life spans. If you burn a lot of disks, you might of burnt out the laser diode, or there might be some other problem with either the burn in drive or the drive your using to read the disks.

Some of the equipment that I have at works. I have several Mac/PC DVDrw/CDrw FantomDrives (Mostly to burn 9.2Gb type I cartraages), 2 MO drives (not worth the cost and time to burn), dozens of CD burners, and we will have a mass CD duplicator (robot arms just look so cool when working) in house with in the next year. ...

 

[litosclone]

I've received CD's burned from one PC that my mac can't mount. I have a PC at home, So I burn the data on another CD, the mac then reads it fine. I believe it has to do with the brand of burner. because Both CD's were burned with Easy CD Creator.