Reading burned DVD-R Discs in DVD-RW dirve is futile

[Guest]

Ever since Beta 2 of Vista, it seems to have significant problems reading
DVD-R discs that I burn with Nero in a DVD-RW drive. In my old PC I could
burn DVD-R discs with Nero and read them fine in my DVD-ROM drive BUT when I
put them in my DVD-RW drive it acted like there was no information on the
disc and asked me to format it. This has happened with two DVD burners, one
PATA (NEC) and the other SATA (Samsung).

So last weekend I reloaded my new PC with Vista Business x64 and installed
Nero 7.7.5.1. Today I burned two DVD-R discs, neither of which Vista will
open in Explorer. When I click on the drive it shows desktop.ini under files
to be written to the disk. I launch UltraISO and it can read the DVDs just
fine and shows the files I burned, so I know the files exist on the disc.

I no longer have a DVD-ROM drive on my computer, so I can't comment whether
Vista would read it or not. I bet it would, given this is the same scenario
that happened through RC2 on my previous PC.

It appears to me Vista has some major issues reading burned DVD-R media in
DVD-RW drives but for some reason the exact same media works in a DVD-ROM
drive. So right now I am totally unable to read any DVDs I've burned, which
is very unacceptable.

What is going on?

 

[Chad Harris]

Hi dseaman--

This is most likely going on--do Method 1 and your problems should be gone
and the DVD drive returned:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553

Good luck,

CH

 

[Guest]

I certainly appreciate the VERY fast response! However, I don't have the
registry values that the article recommend that you delete (UpperFilters and
LowerFilters). The driver that Vista is using is cdrom.sys for my DVD-RW
drive.

Any more ideas?

 

[Chad Harris]

I don't know because you didn't say what new DVD writer you have, but see if
they have any firmware updates--they could be helpful.

CH

 

[Guest]

Ya, I have the latest firmware for my Samsung SH-S183L. This also happens on
my two NEC writers, so I think its more of a OS problem and not a
hardware/firmware issue. VERY frustrating I tell you....basically I'm SOL
which is unacceptable. I must do data backups and right now I can't.

 

[Chad Harris]

Hopefully in a few hours someone will address this because their has tobe a
solution. That Samsung will work on Vista and so will those NEC's. I wish
I had the solution. Check the http://support.microsoft.com using the search
word DVD because there are several other MSKBs but for specific
situations--some with other concommitant 3rd party software.

Sorry I couldn't nail this.

CH

 

[ITinerant]

Personally, I think it's a 64 bit issue. Might want to stick with the 32
bit Vista.

 

[Guest]

Same problem happens on 32-bit on my laptop, and when I was running 32-bit on
the same hardware that I'm now doing 64-bit. I've about had it with these
Vista problems.