viewing photos on vista

[moranclan]

please help, i can't view my photos on vista. I put the disk in and my computer thinks i am putting in an empty disk and so wants me to start the formatting process and to drag the files i want to burn to disc?? Not sure what type of disc they are recorded on they are quite old and were recorded on an XP computer? I know the photos are def on there as i can play them through my dvd player! on the tv, but i need them on my computer. I'm a bit of a technophobe so any basic instructions to help me overcome my problem would be gr8 before i throw the computer out of the window to smash to oblivion!!!!!!