Vista sees ALL CD/DVD as blank discs.

[bizzybody]

Today, out of the blue, Vista Ultimate decided that every DVD or CD I put in my laptop's drive was "blank" and had to be formatted.

After searching the web and finding nothing that applied to this problem, I popped in a CD-RW and erased it then burned a big file to it then verified with Nero 7.

That seems to have smacked Vista upside the head and now it will see the contents of optical discs.

So try erasing/burning/verifying a CD-RW or DVD-RW the next time Vista turns its nose up at your discs and NONE of the following applies.

1. Disc not finalized.

You've verified the disc IS finalized.

2. Disc is multisession.

You've verified the disc is NOT multisession.

3. Drive firmware update needed.

You've already updated to the latest or there is no newer firmware.

4. The disc is blank.

You've quintuple checked and the disc is NOT blank.

5. The drive is bad.

You've connected the drive to another PC where it works perfectly.

Hopefully this will help some people, and since I got it to work, I don't have to write a post listing all the above- then have to watch as a bunch of people completely fail to read and comprehend it and tell me to do everything I just said I've already tried. (There must be some usenet/forum/IRC law that ensures there's almost always some nut who does that.)