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Vista 64 My Sony DW-G120A DVD RW drive tries to format CD-R or at least prompts to prepare the drive for burning. The system has installed the correct drivers and recognises the drive by the correct name.
Faulty drive or Vista fault? -- Thorshammer

Hi,
Did the drive work under XP or another OS? If so, then it's not a faulty drive.You may need a firmware update for it to work in Vista. Have you checked with Sony support to see if there are any known issues?
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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Vista 64 My Sony DW-G120A DVD RW drive tries to format CD-R or at least prompts to prepare the drive for burning. The system has installed the correct drivers and recognises the drive by the correct name.
Faulty drive or Vista fault? -- Thorshammer

Unfortunately I never tried it with XP. This machine was built to to try out Vista.
Yes I have corresponded with the nice Sony people and installed the latest drivers they sent me.
I took a chance after the posting and let it format as it said. Lasted about 30seconds then proceeded to write to the disk. Copies the files on OK but but does not allow you to read the disk on any other drive until it is finalised.
-- Thorshammer
"Rick Rogers" wrote:

Hi,
Did the drive work under XP or another OS? If so, then it's not a faulty drive.You may need a firmware update for it to work in Vista. Have you checked with Sony support to see if there are any known issues?
-- Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Thorshammer" wrote in message Vista 64 My Sony DW-G120A DVD RW drive tries to format CD-R or at least prompts to prepare the drive for burning. The system has installed the correct drivers and recognises the drive by the correct name.
Faulty drive or Vista fault? -- Thorshammer

BETA = BUGS BUGS AND MORE BUGS =p
I have that problem too. I inserted my CD-RW to my DVD RW drive and it doesnt recognize it (same problem as you are experiencing). When double-clicked on the drive, an error came up titled "Burn to Disc". Is the drivers for vista? Please check.
"Thorshammer" wrote:

Vista 64 My Sony DW-G120A DVD RW drive tries to format CD-R or at least prompts to prepare the drive for burning. The system has installed the correct drivers and recognises the drive by the correct name.
Faulty drive or Vista fault? -- Thorshammer