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Old 07-05-2008   #1 (permalink)
JerryM


 
 

Re: Why does Vista always want to format a blank CD or DVD disk?

One more note,

Look at the labels on the DVD disks,
If it says DVD-R or DVD-RW (notice the hyphen) the disk is already
formatted.
If it says DVD+R or DVD+RW (notice the plus sign ) the disk needs to be
formatted.

Jerry

"Gordon" <gbplinux@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium. I have no third-party CD/DVD recording software on the
> machine. Every time I go to burn files to a CDR, CDRW, DVD R or DVDRW
> using the Windows burning function it wants to format the disk. If I
> cancel the format, then the burn is not proceeded with.
> XP does not do this. How do I stop this infuriating behaviour?
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