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Thread: Bug in cdrom.sys?

  1. #1
    Lamy Guest

    Bug in cdrom.sys?

    Vista32 seems to have a bug in cdrom.sys. I have a NEC DVD_RW
    ND-4571A and when I insert a media it recognizes correctly the size
    (by example 308 MB on the CD-R), but cannot read from it and offers to
    format the media (even non-formatable media like CD and DVD). The
    drive is using the latest firmware and no malicious filter setting are
    in the registry. In a parallel installation of Windows XP the drive is
    working fine without any problem.

    I saw, that many other people have similar problems with drives of
    other vendors, so the seems to be clearly a bug in Vista. Microsoft's
    KB does not help. The only way I found is to share a drive on another
    computer running XP and connect this. But this is a quite poor
    workaround.

    Does anyone have an idea what to do?
    Thanks for any advice.

    Lamy
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    Comparing innovations with bugs, Vista appears to be just a commercial
    release.


  2. #2
    ALGI Guest

    Re: Bug in cdrom.sys?

    Yes, that's a serious problem!
    Moreover - reading files from CD/DVD is so extreamly slow....... about
    400KB/s......... but mostly it's hard to read any disk...
    I noticed that if I uninstall drive and restart computer - then it works
    after reinstalation of driver.... for some time..... and reading is at
    1,5MB/s.........

    Same with writing...... if I burn CD I have to choose x8 speed - otherwise
    there is error during burn and CD goes bye bye....

    Many my friends bought different laptops recently with Vista and all have
    same problems.....

  3. #3
    Holger Birkmeyer Guest

    Re: Bug in cdrom.sys?

    I am having the same problem: Vista offers to format the media while the
    same media shows no problems under XP. Also, the CDROM is slow.

    Have you made any progress in finding an answer to this issue?

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