Vista32 seems to have a bug in cdrom.sys. I have a NEC DVD_RW
ND-4571A and when I insert a media it recognizes correctly the size
(by example 308 MB on the CD-R), but cannot read from it and offers to
format the media (even non-formatable media like CD and DVD). The
drive is using the latest firmware and no malicious filter setting are
in the registry. In a parallel installation of Windows XP the drive is
working fine without any problem.

I saw, that many other people have similar problems with drives of
other vendors, so the seems to be clearly a bug in Vista. Microsoft's
KB does not help. The only way I found is to share a drive on another
computer running XP and connect this. But this is a quite poor
workaround.

Does anyone have an idea what to do?
Thanks for any advice.

Lamy
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Comparing innovations with bugs, Vista appears to be just a commercial
release.

Dnia Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:29:05 -0000, Lamy napisa³(a):
[color=blue]
> Vista32 seems to have a bug in cdrom.sys. I have a NEC DVD_RW
> ND-4571A and when I insert a media it recognizes correctly the size
> (by example 308 MB on the CD-R), but cannot read from it and offers to
> format the media (even non-formatable media like CD and DVD). The
> drive is using the latest firmware and no malicious filter setting are
> in the registry. In a parallel installation of Windows XP the drive is
> working fine without any problem.
>
> I saw, that many other people have similar problems with drives of
> other vendors, so the seems to be clearly a bug in Vista. Microsoft's
> KB does not help. The only way I found is to share a drive on another
> computer running XP and connect this. But this is a quite poor
> workaround.[/color]


Yes, that's a serious problem!
Moreover - reading files from CD/DVD is so extreamly slow....... about
400KB/s......... but mostly it's hard to read any disk...
I noticed that if I uninstall drive and restart computer - then it works
after reinstalation of driver.... for some time..... and reading is at
1,5MB/s.........

Same with writing...... if I burn CD I have to choose x8 speed - otherwise
there is error during burn and CD goes bye bye....

Many my friends bought different laptops recently with Vista and all have
same problems.....

I am having the same problem: Vista offers to format the media while the
same media shows no problems under XP. Also, the CDROM is slow.

Have you made any progress in finding an answer to this issue?

Thank you,
Holger

ALGI wrote:[color=blue]
> Dnia Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:29:05 -0000, Lamy napisa³(a):
>[color=green]
>> Vista32 seems to have a bug in cdrom.sys. I have a NEC DVD_RW
>> ND-4571A and when I insert a media it recognizes correctly the size
>> (by example 308 MB on the CD-R), but cannot read from it and offers to
>> format the media (even non-formatable media like CD and DVD). The
>> drive is using the latest firmware and no malicious filter setting are
>> in the registry. In a parallel installation of Windows XP the drive is
>> working fine without any problem.
>>
>> I saw, that many other people have similar problems with drives of
>> other vendors, so the seems to be clearly a bug in Vista. Microsoft's
>> KB does not help. The only way I found is to share a drive on another
>> computer running XP and connect this. But this is a quite poor
>> workaround.[/color]
>
>
> Yes, that's a serious problem!
> Moreover - reading files from CD/DVD is so extreamly slow....... about
> 400KB/s......... but mostly it's hard to read any disk...
> I noticed that if I uninstall drive and restart computer - then it works
> after reinstalation of driver.... for some time..... and reading is at
> 1,5MB/s.........
>
> Same with writing...... if I burn CD I have to choose x8 speed - otherwise
> there is error during burn and CD goes bye bye....
>
> Many my friends bought different laptops recently with Vista and all have
> same problems.....[/color]