Preamble: Had a Windows computer a few years ago, when we first started, things ran excellently on XP, and I could print books and vocablary stuff no prob. So, I know this program (Rob. Curr.) worked.
Now I am a Mac man. Old Windows computer long gone. Already had a box ready XP OS available, so thought I would go the Boot Camp route, and then do XP, then load the RC on it. NOPE. Could not get Boot camp to work on either main 20-in. iMac, or on Mac Book Pro, so that I could use XP, or the RC.
But Apple Store dude said, try VB instead of Boot Camp. So, with his help, we have downloaded VM 4.1.20 onto the Laptop running OS X 10.6.8. Perfect Download, installed the 'box' and then I installed the fresh version of Windows XP OS from the cd-rom, onto the Mac Book Pro via VB, and finally got the new installer to run the Robinson program in XP. Everything went perfectly. And it all looks like it SHOULD work- no crashes, freezes, or anything like that.
The Robinson Curriculum's icon (the only thing I want to run in Windows) is there on the Windows Desktop. When I double click, the list of what's on all 22 cd-roms ( the cd-roms all are dating roughly from 6/2002) is there, ready to double click..... but I can't get the XP desktop to recognize the 22 CD-roms, to access the curriculum! Even when it says 'insert correct disk' and I insert the correct disk, the program does not 'recognize' the disk. BUt it's there! It ( the Windows XP screen) also shows a 'c' and a 'd' drive, but cannot recognize the CD that is in the computer.
When I go to my Mac desktop, there is the CD-rom and it's familiar record-like icon. When I click on it there(on the Mac desktop), I get all the Folders, and can access each individual tiff file, but not as full books (as I used to, when I had a Windows-based computer)- I can only see them as individual tiff files of EACH page.
I seemingly cannot access the files through the Windows OS, and the XP program does not 'see' the CD-roms even when they are loaded on the computer.
Did I do something wrong in setting up the VB gui? Does the problem lurk there? Or, Is there something I need to do with XP to make the 'transition' to enable XP to 'see' the correct CD's, sitting in my Mac's disc-drive???
Thanks,
Dr. Moir