Vista treats DVD or CD with data as blank discs & wants to format media for burning, what to do to prevent it?

Posted on November 1st, 2011 by admin in blank media | 1 Comment »

Hi, I’ve seen this happen on a few computers and not just my own but, I’ll put in a disc and try to run a file that’s on the disc when a pop-up window appears asking me how do I want to format the blank disc?

Is there a setting or something to prevent windows from trying to take discs with data and use them as blank media?

I wouldn’t worry about it, it happens with me a lot. I don’t know an exact solution, but whatever you do, DON’T try and format the disc as it says, just simply eject the disc and re-insert it, and it should be recognized as a disc with data on it.

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