How do I burn CD's/DVD's in Vista Home premium?

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debro (Blown to smitherines): Posts: 11,446; Posted: 11-03-2007

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Originally Posted by BlackPearlSpace

Hi everyone,

Just found this site. made me realize there's allot to know about drives and discs and such.

Just got a new computer, came loaded with vista Home Premium. I'm pretty happy with it so far; especially since my ISP just fixed my slow speeds. They were fast about it and just changed out the modem and something outside, and boom. 9 MB/sec. I'm flying as far as I'm concerned, I haven't had my own computer since Windows 95 was the big deal.

I'm trying to figure out a few things but I'll prolly start a thread about it somewhere. Basicly, my drive was locking up windows explorer pretty hard. trying to learn how to burn these newfandangled DVDs.

Also, the drive is being identified by windows as a generic CD-ROM drive. what's up with that?

Cheers,
BPS

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Originally Posted by BlackPearlSpace

I'm trying to figure out a few things but I'll prolly start a thread about it somewhere. Basicly, my drive was locking up windows explorer pretty hard. trying to learn how to burn these newfandangled DVDs.

You most likely have an autolaunch program checking discs as you insert them. Either players, or packet writing software.
Disable player software autolaunch, and uninstall packet writing (drag and drop to disc) software.

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Originally Posted by BlackPearlSpace

Also, the drive is being identified by windows as a generic CD-ROM drive. what's up with that?

Completely normal.

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debro (Blown to smitherines): Posts: 11,446; Posted: 12-03-2007

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Originally Posted by BlackPearlSPace

hi,

um, I don't think it's autorun. I already went through and disabled like 20 useless items.

My drive is identified as: HL-DT-ST DVD RAM GSA-H22N. from what I read on here the GSA-H22N is a good drive that most ppl like.

I looked for DVD-RAM media, but it doesn't seem to be readily available. saw it somewhere online for $17 each. So I guess I'll stick to these DVD+Rs I have for now.

I had been formatting them, and that seemed to work. then I cut n pasted files to it. worked for one disc. but often crashes windows explorer.

I read that vista supports writing to discs formatted for FAT32.

I gotta learn how do this, my 250 GB drive is already almost full. after 3 weeks.

Sounds like you are using drag & Drop burning, which is the worst way to do it.

Try using a dedicated burning program, rather than windows inbuilt drag & drop software, or packet writing.
IMGBURN is freeware and works in Vista x64 .. can see no reason why it shouldn't work in Vista x32.

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