Computer not recognizing DVD photos?

I hope this is the right forum to post this in. It seems to be the best fit.

I went on a whale watch this past Thurs with my mother and my aunt and we all took a ton of photos. I decided I'd burn all of our photos onto one DVD (since the DVD can hold a LOT more than a normal CD) for everyone so we'll all have each other's photos. Using DVDs for photo storage works perfectly fine on my computer, but my mother's computer won't even recognize that a DVD was put in. If I put in a CD with photos on it, it works fine.

My parents don't use their computer very often and the one they have is on the older side. Although I don't know how old it is, I know it's a Dell. It was a hand me down from the company that my father works at.

Is it possible that the computer is to old to recognize the DVD format? Is there a setting that I can use to enable this?

silly question but does the older computer have a dvd drive?

Well, it says it's a Samsung CD/R-RW drive SW2525 on the 'drive name' tab (I think that's what it's called) and then under drive type it says DVD/CD-R.

Had this happen to me. When you burned the DVD yiu did it from another computer did you have the option to master the DVD sometimes if this happens another computer cannot read it.

Michael

Unless the drive shows a DVD logo (

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Thanks! That's the problem. I had them check it and it does only say Compact Disc on the front, nothing about DVD. Guess we'll either have to go back to CD's or upgrade to DVD.