One of Three DVDs burned not read by XP,

I backed-up/burned three DVD 4.7GB, 16x DVDs via Itunes on my Macbook Pro (using the MAC OS).
I then I put them in my other XP machine and it read the first DVD without problem.
The second, it saw only a blank DVD with the d:\ directory.
However, I verified that there is readable content on my MAC and there is no problem.
Any ideas??

In MAC format. However, the DVDs burned by the superdrive should be ISO dual read for both windows/mac. The first DVD read fine. I am wondering if it is caused by the inability of the older windows xp laptop to deal with a 'full' DVD.
I reckon that it might be easier to just boot into XP, attach an external HDD and transfer to the other laptop that way.
More expense to buy the external HDD however.

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