info burned on win98 cannot be read by winxp?

[Puer Aeternus]

Hey good people!
I have lost some important info off of my hard drive and my only back ups are burnt onto disk...the prob is it was burned when I had win98 on the system...and now win xp will not read the disk?!?!
Is there a way to access this info w/ out having to re-install win 98?
I do not want to have a dual boot at present...I am not willing to lose my existing partitions to win98..unless it will install into the same partition as win xp w/ out messing it up...I dunno

 

[Monaco]

that sounds odd! CD data is supposed to be all interchangeable, regardless of OS. If my brain is working, the storage format is called CDFS.

Is there a chance you burned it in some odd format? When you use Explorer to show the disc's properties, what does it tell you about it's file system?

 

[Puer Aeternus]

Fixed it...I was able to get some of the info I needed..has to do w/ a patch for windows xp. it is installed and I can read some of my cd's now...I have not tried all of them yet.

 

[xCarne_Asada]

Fixed it...I was able to get some of the info I needed..has to do w/ a patch for windows xp. it is installed and I can read some of my cd's now...I have not tried all of them yet.

what is the patch cause i have the same problem?

 

[Puer Aeternus]

Windows update!!
(not SP1 !!!!)