Vista tries to format any cd in the DVD/RW Combo Drive
- Hi,
I´ve got some problems with my DVD Drive on my Toshiba Tecra A8 Notebook.
The DVD/RW Device is an Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-841S drive.
The Vista Installation is done from a Vista Upgrade CD from the Vista Upgrade Program which I received and is original from Toshiba. I have also received a CD full with drivers for my Notebook from Toshiba and installed them all.
I can read the CD´s from the command line, but if I try to open it out of the explorer he everytime ask me to format the CD. The only way to start a setup.exe or something like this is to do it from the command line. Also the autostart won´t work.
Any ideas?
regards,
Florian
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Hi,
I have the same problem on my deskop intel duo core 2 2.6 bwith full oem home vista premium installed bought from new two months ago. This problem has happened the past two weeks.
Vista tried to format whenever i try to open cd/dvd on my drive. Pls provide answers as I do not want to format my pc. Thank you. My dvd drives are lite on shm-165H6S and Plextor Px-716A.
Pls Help?
alan
I've excatly the same problem on a Lenovo 3000 J115 with Vista Bussiness 32 bits.
Any Ideas?
Oriol
i've the same problem on HP pavilion DV6000.
i didn;t upgrade to vista though, the machine came preinstalled with vista home premium.
The dvd-rw drived used to work pretty well, i could burn dvds and read dvd/cd discs back.
but i don't know what went wong in the past couple weeks, i can't read any dvd/cd disc back now, after inserting a disc, and clicking the DVD Drive icon in win explorer, it always eject the disc and prompt me to insert a new disc.
I checked the device manager no error is shown in there, and even reinstalled the cd driver, to no avail.
I know the drive hardware itself is fine, cuz i could boot from a Windows XP CD.
if i can't fix this stupid issue in the next couple days, will prob just downgrade to Windows XP, which doesnt have this sort of cr*p. vista really s..ks.
by chance do you have sp1 installed on your laptop or no?
HI,
I have got the same problem wity my Vista installed Compaq notebook.
The DVD RW device asks to Format the disc when I try to open the disks every time, unless I restart the system.
Got any ideas yet??? I saw lots of this sort of problems on the net, and no one gets an exact answer.
regards,
Frank
- I have this issue too and ExpertsExchange.com basically solves it by telling users to run lots of anti-virus software and malware, etc. I havn't solved it as of now but am optimistic about my tools.
- Try to disable Vista's CD Burning:
1. Launch registry editor (Start Menu > Run > regedit.exe).
2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\CD Burning\Drives.
3. Select the correct Volume subkey.
4. Find and modify the IsImapiDataBurnSupported DWORD to 0.
5. Close the registry editor.
Worked for me. - yes!
Danke!!
