DVD R/W Benq drive does not read Sony DVD-R after installing Vista

Posted: 08-19-2007, 12:12 PM

Suti

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Hi

I was running XP and my DVD R/W Benq drive used to read discs properly. Now
after installing Vista, I find that on inserting some data DVD-Rs (Sony, 16X,
burnt on my laptop running Vista Ultimate, using Nero 6.0 to burn), it thinks
it is a blank DVD. At the same time, when I insert some Imation DVD-Rs which
I had burnt using WinXP earlier, it is able to read them. What is going wrong
wrong here?

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PaulB

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RE: DVD R/W Benq drive does not read Sony DVD-R after installing Vista

Posted: 08-19-2007, 05:46 PM

I don't think Nero 6 is compatible with Vista. This may be causing a problem.
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Paul

"Suti" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I was running XP and my DVD R/W Benq drive used to read discs properly. Now
> after installing Vista, I find that on inserting some data DVD-Rs (Sony, 16X,
> burnt on my laptop running Vista Ultimate, using Nero 6.0 to burn), it thinks
> it is a blank DVD. At the same time, when I insert some Imation DVD-Rs which
> I had burnt using WinXP earlier, it is able to read them. What is going wrong
> wrong here?

Marjay

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Re: DVD R/W Benq drive does not read Sony DVD-R after installing Vista

Posted: 08-20-2007, 11:30 PM

Check on the BenQ website for an update to the drive. It will NOT be a
driver update but rather a FIRMWARE update... Apparently Vista has
some different responses to media insertion than XP had and this MAY
solve the problem. If they don't have a firmware update you may need
to replace the drive (what I had to do)

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:12:03 -0700, Suti
<Suti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I was running XP and my DVD R/W Benq drive used to read discs properly. Now
>after installing Vista, I find that on inserting some data DVD-Rs (Sony, 16X,
>burnt on my laptop running Vista Ultimate, using Nero 6.0 to burn), it thinks
>it is a blank DVD. At the same time, when I insert some Imation DVD-Rs which
>I had burnt using WinXP earlier, it is able to read them. What is going wrong
>wrong here?

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