"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> XP always wanted to install its file System on a CD before burning
> files!!!!!

<sigh>.......

Here are a couple of things to try:

1. Experiment with the autoplay settings in Control Panel > Autoplay.

2. Using an unimportant DVD/CD, allow Vista to go through the motions of
formatting the disk. I think it will fail then allow you to ‘explore’ the
drive. Sometimes this ‘pseudo’ formatting resets the drive.

"Charabeuh" wrote:

> hello
>
> Your problem is a real one. I got the same one.
>
> I try to remember what i have done...
>
> I uninstalled all the burning softwares except one. I disabled the burning
> service of vista. I deleted a directory (don't remember which one and if i
> do my Vista is not in english) whose content was files to burn on a disk.
> Look like i began a burning operation with vista's burning tool and never
> went to the end.)
>
> Hope it gives you some ideas.
>
> (I apologyze for my english)
>
>
>
>
>
> "Gordon" <gbplinux******.com.invalid> a écrit dans le message de
> news:g4l24u$9qk$1@news.mixmin.net...
> > Vista Home Premium. I have no third-party CD/DVD recording software on the
> > machine. Every time I go to burn files to a CDR, CDRW, DVD R or DVDRW
> > using the Windows burning function it wants to format the disk. If I
> > cancel the format, then the burn is not proceeded with.
> > XP does not do this. How do I stop this infuriating behaviour?
>
>

One more note,

Look at the labels on the DVD disks,
If it says DVD-R or DVD-RW (notice the hyphen) the disk is already
formatted.
If it says DVD+R or DVD+RW (notice the plus sign ) the disk needs to be
formatted.

Jerry

"Gordon" <gbplinux******.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Vista Home Premium. I have no third-party CD/DVD recording software on the
> machine. Every time I go to burn files to a CDR, CDRW, DVD R or DVDRW
> using the Windows burning function it wants to format the disk. If I
> cancel the format, then the burn is not proceeded with.
> XP does not do this. How do I stop this infuriating behaviour?

"JerryM" <jerrym526@msn.org> wrote in message
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> One more note,
>
> Look at the labels on the DVD disks,
> If it says DVD-R or DVD-RW (notice the hyphen) the disk is already
> formatted.
> If it says DVD+R or DVD+RW (notice the plus sign ) the disk needs to
> be formatted.
>
> Jerry
>

Whether Vista or another app - with option to use drive checked will try
to format it.
"Do you have Recording enabled" for drive ?
I found that in Drive Properties - Recording tab - uncheck "Recording "
box and autoformatting stopped for me. Blank DVD's for either model would
produce same result. If you had software cd burning app installed, IT
would start format ( if set to do so) automatically. Windows sees unusable
media and is trying to correct it.