CD-rom not working

[tielan]

I bought (yes, bought) a CD rom of CivII to try to play.

It's not working in the DVD multirecorder that I borrowed and I'm trying to work out if it's the disc or it's the external player which is connected to my laptop via USB. Or something else.

Any suggestions/thoughts?

Comments

[timespirt]

Probably the disc.

[tielan]

The thing is, I have two discs, neither are working. I'll try a DVD and see if it takes that.

[eggsbenedict]

Possibly the disc, or your Windows version... but I have a USB CD drive you can borrow, if you want to try that out when I'm back.

[tielan]

Windows 10. I'm stubbornly clinging to it in the face of all encouragements to move on.

I just want to play my old CD-Rom game!

[eggsbenedict]

I'm pretty sure the original ran in Windows 3.1 or Win95 which is why I was asking. XD

If you can see the files in Windows Explorer when you put the disc in, it's not the disc!

[gingicat]

If it's the disc, you can look at the shiny side and see if there's a scratch, and hold it up to the light to see if there's a gap. But that will only tell you about a physical issue.

[tielan]

Yeah, I looked it over and it all seemed fine, so...?

*sighs*

I'll have to troubleshoot it in the next week where possible.