Hey John, How about posting your questions where they are "on topic"? Try some of these newsgroups: seattle.users.macintosh comp.sys.mac.apps comp.sys.mac.hardware comp.sys.mac.storage comp.sys.mac.misc Or try looking for answers in newsgroups via Google "Groups". You might find what you are looking for on VersionTracker.com Toast is a Mac application which burns CDs, which requires it to read CDs. It is a good product, and it may solve your problem. Good luck. --Dave On 2/17/06, John A.M. Darnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello All: > > The company accepts input from hundreds of schools on CD. Many of > those CDs are originally unreadable once we get them in house and we have > to spend much time making them readable. > > The fact that we can make them readable in the end (usually it involves > one of my programmers walking around the plant and inserting the CD into a > Mac box until he finds one that reads the disk) leads me to conclude that > we'd have an easier time of it if we only had the right software to help > diagnose the problem. > > Do any of you know an equivalent of "Norton Disk Doctor" or something > similar that would work on CDs? > > Any other suggestions you might have would be gratefully received. > > R, > > John A.M. Darnell > Project Leader > Internal Software Development > Walsworth Publishing Company >