you can try a utility called:
MacDrive - I think the current version is 5

this 'teaches' winblows to read a mac formatted cd -
this might solve the issue.

David C. wrote:

> fvanscoy@wvu.edu (Frances L. Van Scoy) writes:
>
>>I have burned a set of about 50 CDs containing about 20 GB of data.
>>These were written using Adaptec Toast on a Mac Powerbook G3 running
>>OS 8.x and a Mac Powerbook G4 running OS 9.x. I have successfully
>>copied these CDs to an eMac running Mac OS X (10.2.6). The CDs were
>>written in ISO 9660 format.
>
>
> Why ISO 9660 format? I always burn with "Mac OS Extended and PC
> (Hybrid) CD". This provides the Joliet extensions that Windows uses
> for long filenames and other things.
>
>
>>However when I try to copy these CDs to a Windows XP systems, some
>>of the files won't be copied. The really frustrating thing is that
>>once the XP system won't copy a particular file it stops the copying
>>process and won't copy anything else on the CD. Of course I can
>>manually go through the fairly complex folder structure and copy
>>individual files or folders but that will be a long process for 50
>>CDs.
>
>
> Windows XP is brain-dead. It's CD driver seems to choke on anything
> other than Microsoft's own proprietary format (aka Joliet).
>
>
>>I've used Adaptec Toast on the G3 to identify file names on one of
>>the CDs which do not meet Joliet requirements and modified them on
>>the eMac before burning a new CD. I still have problems, however.
>>Some files whose names seem OK (all letters, digits, and spaces)
>>still cannot be copied. One error message I receive is "Cannot find
>>the specified path. Make sure you specify the correct path."
>>Another is "Cannot read from the source file or disk." Also some
>>files (for example some mail files created using AOL 4 or 5) can't
>>be opened once they are on the Windows system. (I've tried to open
>>them directly from within AOL 8.0 or Word or WordPad without
>>success.)
>
>
> What about the total path length.
>
> I remember that back in the MS-DOS days, if the total pathname to a
> file (drive letter, path and filename) would be longer than 64
> characters, it wouldn't open. I think the limit was increased in
> later versions of the OS, but I think there is still a limit like
> this. Files that exist underneath a deep nest of directories may be
> unreadable because of this.
>
>
>>Any advice?
>
>
> Try burning with the hybrid format, if you haven't already tried.
> Otherwise, I can't think of anything. Normally, when I have to
> transfer anything from my Mac to my PC, I do it over the LAN.
>
> The CDs that I've burned (using the hybrid format from Toast) seem to
> work OK on the Windows systems I use every day (95, 98, NT4 and 2000).
>
> -- David