[ale] Reading UDF DVD created on Vista

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed May 21 14:31:27 EDT 2008


Did you use Windows' built-in burning capability? If so, that was your
mistake. I recommend http://cdburnerxp.se/ for a free disc burning
application on Windows.

Re-burn the disc using that. I bet it will work better.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> I have a data DVD created on Windows Vista.  I can't read it.  Googling
> shows me that Vista burns disks using some unusual variation of UDF which
> Linux can't read without a kernel patch.
>
> Is there *any* way I can read such a disk without applying a kernel patch?




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