I have an old Compaq 5050 PC, and it reads cd's like music and games, but it won't read disks that I have burned to from a different computer.

I have an old Compaq 5050 PC, and it reads cd's like music and games, but it won't read disks that I have burned to from a different computer.

Scratch that, it reads burned cd disks but not disks with data on it.

Scratch that, it reads burned cd MUSIC disks but not disks with data on it.

Look at quote, and it says E:\ is not acessible.
Also, its windows 97, and the CD/DVD reader is Liteon CD-ROM LTN301.

Are you sure it supports CD-R media? Googling didn't turn up much info about the drive and none of it indicated CD-R or CD-RW disc support.