ILife '06 install disk not recognized

I have a DVD drive on PowerBook G4, but my computer doesn't recognize the iLife '06 Install Disc. The Menu comes up, but the icon that is usually an open box is instead a blank document. How can I change this and which app. will open it?

I tried creating a disk image to copy the second install disk as you suggested, but about halfway through the process, I got this error message:
"Stop. Input/Output Error"
Does this confirm that the disk itself is corrupt? I followed the step-by-step instructions on the Apple support pages, just to be sure I did everything right.
Sooo, if the CD has some problem with it, and yet my G4 can read it (but apparently cannot copy it), I have another question:
Will I be able to run the installer on my G4 while using the iBook as my Target Disk ? I can't figure out how that would work. (I already have a firewire connection between the two computers.)
Thanks for your help.

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I have checked this forum and found several discussions regarding this topic but no clear solution. I am trying to create a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition on my late 2008 MacBook Pro. I have a DVD drive with the following specs:
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Second Panther Install Disk not recognized

I am trying to reinstall OS 10.3 from the original, full retail version CDs, doing a complete clean install.
I have successfully installed disk one, but then when prompted to insert disk 2, I do so and nothing happens.
I don't think it is a problem with my CD or the drive because:
1. The CD is clean.
2. My G4 reads it fine.
3. The other CDs have worked, including the first install disk.
So I chose to cancel the rest of the installation.
The computer boots up all right as is, but then it won't eject the second install CD. So I restarted and pushed the eject button on the keyboard during restart to get it out.
Once the computer is restarted again, I put disk 2 back in, to see if I can install that way. Same problem, but now it not only won't read the disk (although the CD drive is making plenty of noise trying to), but it also slows everything else down to a grinding halt. The finder takes MINUTES to open and close windows. But again, the CD won't eject, so I have to push the eject button during another restart. Once the CD is out, the OS runs smoothly again.
My questions are:
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2. How do I get my computer to recognize this disk?
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I tried creating a disk image to copy the second install disk as you suggested, but about halfway through the process, I got this error message:
"Stop. Input/Output Error"
Does this confirm that the disk itself is corrupt? I followed the step-by-step instructions on the Apple support pages, just to be sure I did everything right.
Sooo, if the CD has some problem with it, and yet my G4 can read it (but apparently cannot copy it), I have another question:
Will I be able to run the installer on my G4 while using the iBook as my Target Disk ? I can't figure out how that would work. (I already have a firewire connection between the two computers.)
Thanks for your help.

ADE installed but not recognized

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--- disk not recognized by this computer ----

I have the G4 tower with a dvd burner, and I recently
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but floppys previously [1990's] formatted are not readable.

Reader Gerrie E. Cooper has a stash of old floppies that contain fonts from Adobe, Agfa, and other companies. It’s bad enough that the fonts are stored on this prehistoric media, but said media is of the 800KB variety. He wonders what course to take.
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MacBook Pro 3,1 2007 disk not recognized at install

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I installed SnowLeopard on two of my Macs without problem. Trying the same on my MacBook Pro 3,1 2007 with a 320GB drive gives me a headache. I erased the volume completely, started up from the install-DVD and clicked install. However, the installer did not recognize the volume and did not list it in the selection window. Even running DiskWarrior on the empty volume did not change things. Several attempts to no avail.
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[SOLVED]Hard Disk not recognized when installing

Hey all, I'm just starting with Arch and I've had some trouble installing it on my Acer netbook.
My first installation went well except that I had forgot to download the wireless tools so I decided to do a fresh install as I had no access to a wired connection at the time. The second installation attempt must have had some error on my part as Arch failed to start after selecting it from Grub, saying that the kernel was not available/not recognized.
Now my subsequent attempts at installing have failed because the hard disk is not recognized when running either cgdisk or cfdisk. Instead of showing my hard drive partitions after running
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srs5694 wrote:The cgdisk "damaged disk" error is probably a result of the tool seeing an MBR partition table on your USB flash drive, rather than the GPT disk it's expecting. If I'm right, you should not follow s1ln7m4s7r's advice, since that will simply trash your USB flash drive!
If you mean by trashing the USB flash drive, that it will delete all data and partitions on the selected drive it is correct, because:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/$disk bs=4096 count=1
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/dev/$disk
- this will make you enter ncurses-based GUID partition table (GPT) manipulator, where you can create new partitions
You should only do this if you are certain of what disk it is.
Now if when you said this, you were meaning it will became broken, then it may be a special kind of usb drive because i've donne it many times and i've not broken any.
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Installation Failure: Audition 3 disk not recognized

When I place the Audition 3 disk into my CD/DVD drive to install, it whirrs a bit then...nothing.
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Mark

Here is how I solved this. It was really quite simple once I thought through the problem.
I took the disk to my laptop (which could recognize the disk, but where I did not want to install the app) and copied all the files into a subdir (called it TEMP) on the Laptops desktop. (the disk buzzed/vibrated more than usual during this task, so I guess it was out of balance. That's why it probably failed in my desktop drive)
Anyway, I then burned the files in the Temp subdir to a blank CD on the laptop...took the newly created CD over to the desktop machine (that was not recognizing the original Audition 3 disk), put the newly created CD into its the desktops drive, and poof...it worked! Installation proceeded normally with the newly created CD.
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Windows 7 Install USB not recognized.

There are countless threads with problems similar to this, but endless searching and googling has gotten me nowhere.
I am on an iMac running OS X Version 10.8.3 (just upgraded to mountain lion from snow leopard 10.6 yesterday).
I have two USB sticks, one I have successfully installed the windows support software on, and the other I have successfully created a windows 7 install disk.
I am unable to even begin the windows install- no matter what I do I can't get the computer to recognize this USB as a bootable device.
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Old (Really Old) Apple Files /Disks Not Recognized by Current Computers

This has doubtless been asked before, but I could not find anything in the 6 pages of recent postings under "Older Apple Products."
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However, some very old documents are on 3.5 disks that are not recognized by my current Apple computers, or my Windows XP laptop.
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Various people have similar postings on this but not QUITE the same...
I login and I receive the message "The disk you inserted was not recognized..."
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