Vista - RTM DVD oddity

This is weird and very annoying...

For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and works
perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
drive!!!

I cannot see any data at all from Vista.

Curiously if I run up VMWare Player, it CAN see the drive and data perfectly.

This is EXTREMELY irritating as you can imagine as it basically means you
cannot use DVDs in Vista.

"warder" <warder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is weird and very annoying...
>
> For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and works
> perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
> drive!!!
>
> I cannot see any data at all from Vista.
>
> Curiously if I run up VMWare Player, it CAN see the drive and data perfectly.
>
> This is EXTREMELY irritating as you can imagine as it basically means you
> cannot use DVDs in Vista.


DVDs work just as expected for me with RTM and a SONY dual-layer writer.

Tom Lake

DVDs work fine for me too with RTM

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"warder" <warder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> This is weird and very annoying...
>
> For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and
> works
> perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
> drive!!!
>
> I cannot see any data at all from Vista.
>
> Curiously if I run up VMWare Player, it CAN see the drive and data
> perfectly.
>
> This is EXTREMELY irritating as you can imagine as it basically means you
> cannot use DVDs in Vista.

I'm sure they must be working for most people too, but for some reason it
isn't here.

This is on a Thinkpad z60m. The drive shows as:

HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4080N ATA Device

I've just put a manufactured (not writable) CD in the drive and it does the
same...

Pops up a dialog saying 'Burn a Disc', prompting for the disc title to
'Prepare this blank disc'.

Which is silly, as from a command prompt, I can see the files in the disk -
but the GUI won't browse them.



"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

> DVDs work fine for me too with RTM
>
> --
> John Barnett MVP
> Associate Expert
> Windows Shell/User
>
> Web: http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
> Web: http://vistasupport.mvps.org
>
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> kind, either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
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> any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the
> use of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this
> mail/post..
>
> "warder" <warder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1E1E7AAC-3362-4862-BB87-FC0D18F14D88@microsoft.com...
> > This is weird and very annoying...
> >
> > For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and
> > works
> > perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
> > drive!!!
> >
> > I cannot see any data at all from Vista.
> >
> > Curiously if I run up VMWare Player, it CAN see the drive and data
> > perfectly.
> >
> > This is EXTREMELY irritating as you can imagine as it basically means you
> > cannot use DVDs in Vista.
>
>

i get the same prob.. a disable/enable in device manager is a fix but its
damn annoying.. pioneer dvd-108

"warder" <warder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1E1E7AAC-3362-4862-BB87-FC0D18F14D88@microsoft.com...
> This is weird and very annoying...
>
> For some reason if I put a DVD (+R) in my drive that is finalized and
> works
> perfectly in other PC's, Vista pops up a dialog prompting to Format the
> drive!!!
>
> I cannot see any data at all from Vista.
>
> Curiously if I run up VMWare Player, it CAN see the drive and data
> perfectly.
>
> This is EXTREMELY irritating as you can imagine as it basically means you
> cannot use DVDs in Vista.

That did fix it. Thanks.

I wonder how long before it does it again...

"noone" wrote:

> i get the same prob.. a disable/enable in device manager is a fix but its
> damn annoying.. pioneer dvd-108
>

every time you reboot

"warder" <warder@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> That did fix it. Thanks.
>
> I wonder how long before it does it again...
>
> "noone" wrote:
>
>> i get the same prob.. a disable/enable in device manager is a fix but its
>> damn annoying.. pioneer dvd-108
>>
>

It's VMWare that is cause the problem.
After installing VMWare on my system, I to was have the DVD oddity. Everything was back to normal once I uninstalling VMWare.

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