RTM DVD oddity

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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.
 
warder said:
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.
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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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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.
 
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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