Vista - Bug: Erase command fails if optical drive is selected in Explorer

This is 100% reproducible on my system. Don't know about other configs.
I've added config info at bottom in case it does matter.

To Repro:
1) Open Windows Explorer
2) Insert a non-empty rewritable DVD or CD (i.e. a disk with files of any
kind on it) into the DVD burner
3) If any AutoPlay activity takes place, dismiss it
4) Select the DVD burner in the Folders pane of Windows Explorer - the files
on the disk should now appear in the Files pane to the right
5) Right click on the DVD burner in the Folders pane of Windows Explorer
6) Click on the "Erase this disk" command in the context menu
7) Click Next in the "Burn to Disc - Ready to erase disc" dialog that appears

Result:
The "Burn to Disk - Ready to erase disk" dialog AND the Windows Explorer
window vanish immediatly and the files are not erased. Also, the drive may
be "locked" at this point - i.e. any attempt to eject the disk fails. The
system must be rebooted to clear this condition if the burner is an internal
drive (i.e. not USB).

Note: if you do not select the DVD burner (i.e. skip step 4 so that another
drive is selected in the Folder pane), then step 7 works as expected - the
dialog stays up, displays a progress bar, and erases the files successfully.


Config Information:

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
System Manufacturer Gigabyte
System Model Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 rev 1
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz, 2133 Mhz, 2
Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F9
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.05 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.24 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.83 GB
Page File Space 2.29 GB

Display Adapter: XFX GeForce 7600 GS

Optical Drives:
1) HP dvd200i DVD Burner (internal IDE)
2) LiteOn SHM-165P6SX (external USB)

Hard Drives:
1) Drive 0: 160GB Western Digital SATA
2) Drive 1: 320GB Western Digital SATA

Imagine that's more than enough...



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