Unreadable Windows DVD I have disks burnt commercially on a windows system, which my 2010 iMac (OS X 10.8.2) refuses to read.

I know the disks are correctly burnt for windows (tried them on the vendor's win machine - probably xp) but os x says:


  "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"


I've no idea what to try (short of accessing them on an at work win machine.
Any pointers out there?

Cheers
Two possibilities. There is a problem with the software and/or hardware on your Mac, or the disk wasn't truly burned properly.

If your Mac reads all other DVDs fine, I'm guessing the problem is with how it was burned.

I'm not sure what software or method you used, but maybe there's a problem with the partition or something on the DVDs. Try to see what it says in Disk Utility.