doxaboy

Hi to all,
I have a sony vaio vgn-cr 35 G_L with pioneer dvd-rw dvr k17 ata and OS vista home premium. Same reported problem, is working but at three months after I bought it, was not reading all discs. Even my own photos discs that I burned on this machine I can't read anymore. Is reading only genuine discs(CD,DVD). The problem is not with the driver itself. I read that Microsoft is fighting against piracy and this "driver loose" is part of this fight. Please note that all complains on all forums are coming from OS Vista users. Our real problem is OS Vista with its included soft Star Force Protection for reading ONLY GENUINE discs, that is blocking the dvd-rw original driver and in my opinion, is loading Microsoft driver even if you will have the correct driver or is not loading any driver at all. Now I can not delete this OS due to my location but soon than I will be home I will wipe off this VISTA and I think that my dvd-rw problems would be history. At least for the moment because the guys working for Microsoft would find a way to force us to use Vista and to make our properties unusable.