I have a Kurzweil CD-ROM. I put it into my computer and received a message saying it could not read the disk.

The following is true if you have a K2000 or K2500 with an OS version 2.80 or earlier for non-KDFX units or 4.04 or earlier for KDFX units.

There are two problems with putting the CD in your computer.

The first is that Kurzweil does not support the ISO 9660 format, which is often used by computers for a CD-ROM format. So your computer must be able to deal with a CD that is not in ISO-9660.

The second problem has to do with the formatting of the disk itself. The disk will be a disk image copy of the DOS or Kurzweil formatted source disk that originally contained the data. Our SCSI format is similar to but not fully implemented DOS. So if the disk was taken from a Kurzweil formatted source disk, the computer may or may not recognize that format, depending on the SCSI drivers or software running in your computer

For example, if you have a Mac, and install a program called DOS Mounter 95, the Mac simply sees a Kurzweil formatted CD-ROM as a DOS disk. You can read the disk and copy files easily. But on the PC, depending on the SCSI card and drivers you have, it may or may not be able to recognize that format.

For a K2500 with an OS version 2.88 or later for non-KDFX units or 4.21 or later for KDFX units or for a K2600.

Starting with these versions, Kurzweil now support the ISO-9660 format, so if the disk was burned using IS0-9660, the computer should be able to read the disk. However, keep in mind that most commercially available CD-ROMs were created prior to the addition of this ability, and instead were burned as disk image copies, so you are still likely to run into the situation described above

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