[SOLVED] Vista cd-rom trouble

wolfen1086 · 10-04-2007, 04:30 PM

OK this is a wiered one. I have vista home basic on a e machine 3 gig
both the cd-rom and the dvd-rom show up and work, only thing is every time I place a cd or dvd in the treys and close the door vista wants to know how I want to format the disks, vista doesn't care if its a closed cd or not, anybody have any ideas?

dai · 10-05-2007, 11:00 AM

see what happens when you disable auto detect
look for autoplay in the control panel

wolfen1086 · 10-05-2007, 03:12 PM

Thanks, I tried that, it worked on the cd rom drive I installed, but teh dvd rom still asks how I want to format the disk, I guess thats probably why I installed a cd rom along with a dvd rom, both are r, and rw, so I'll keep playing around withe dvd drive and see if I can make it open a disk instead of formating it

wolfen1086 · 10-05-2007, 03:20 PM

dai, thank you very much, I know I just replyed to your post, but I thought for a minute after posting and went playing around a bit and set both driver to open with windows explorer :) Now neither drive asks how I want to format a disk. I wish I'd known that before I put in my office 2003 pro disk and walked away thinking it'd autorun

dai · 03-03-2008, 11:07 AM

glad you have it sorted

10-04-2007, 04:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
wolfen1086 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Va Beach Posts: 258 OS: Win XP SP3	[SOLVED] Vista cd-rom trouble OK this is a wiered one. I have vista home basic on a e machine 3 gig both the cd-rom and the dvd-rom show up and work, only thing is every time I place a cd or dvd in the treys and close the door vista wants to know how I want to format the disks, vista doesn't care if its a closed cd or not, anybody have any ideas?

10-05-2007, 11:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,639 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Vista cd-rom trouble see what happens when you disable auto detect look for autoplay in the control panel __________________

10-05-2007, 03:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
wolfen1086 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Va Beach Posts: 258 OS: Win XP SP3	Re: Vista cd-rom trouble Thanks, I tried that, it worked on the cd rom drive I installed, but teh dvd rom still asks how I want to format the disk, I guess thats probably why I installed a cd rom along with a dvd rom, both are r, and rw, so I'll keep playing around withe dvd drive and see if I can make it open a disk instead of formating it

10-05-2007, 03:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
wolfen1086 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Va Beach Posts: 258 OS: Win XP SP3	Re: Vista cd-rom trouble dai, thank you very much, I know I just replyed to your post, but I thought for a minute after posting and went playing around a bit and set both driver to open with windows explorer :) Now neither drive asks how I want to format a disk. I wish I'd known that before I put in my office 2003 pro disk and walked away thinking it'd autorun

03-03-2008, 11:07 AM	#5 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,639 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: [SOLVED] Vista cd-rom trouble glad you have it sorted __________________