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

07-05-2008

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?

07-08-2008

"JerryM" <jerrym526@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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	Quote:
	> 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 >

Whether Vista or another app - with option to use drive checked will try
to format it.
"Do you have Recording enabled" for drive ?
I found that in Drive Properties - Recording tab - uncheck "Recording "
box and autoformatting stopped for me. Blank DVD's for either model would
produce same result. If you had software cd burning app installed, IT
would start format ( if set to do so) automatically. Windows sees unusable
media and is trying to correct it.

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