Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Have you tried to read the disk in another Linux machine?
Have you tried it in older Windows versions?
Does the destination PC have a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive or just a reader?
Is it definitely a CD not a DVD? (Made that mistake before!) If DVD, is it DVD-R or DVD+R? Or even dual layer?
Can you boot the Vista PC from a Linux USB key and see if it will then read the CD, just to confirm it isn't a hardware compatibility issue? (Alternatively, I think some live CDs can be booted into memory and the disk ejected - Puppy? DSL?)