DVD autorun formatting question....from a computer tech

[drachillix]

Win7 pro, SP1

I have a machine, any time I insert a DVD, it formats it, this would be fine if not for the fact I need to burn an ISO to the disk.

Turning off all relevant autorun and autoplay features so far…no change, even disabled CD/DVD burn support via group policy and registry…still formats instantly and will not allow me to burn an ISO to it.

This is maddening and googling relevant terms is a swamp of unrelated issues.

any ideas?

[aceplace57]

This should be the normal behavior. There should be a prompt. Do you have any 3rd party burning software installed? like Roxio?

I wrote an ISO last month. It was a hard drive utility that made a bootable cd.

Windows help and learning

In the AutoPlay dialog box that appears, click Burn files to disc using Windows Explorer.

Type a name for your disc in the Disc title box.

Click one of the following formatting options:

[aceplace57]

This guy had the identical problem in Win Vista. Seems like it should work in Win 7.

vista tries to format any disk i put in my cd/dvd-rw

This is the fix:

I was facing the same issue and I was able to resolve it by turning off vista’s burning feature :

By Group Policy:

1. run gpedit.msc
2. go to [User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer]
3. double click [Remove CD Burning Features], choose [Enable]

By Registry:

1. run cmd.exe as administrator
2. reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer /v NoCDBurning /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

You can use any third party free burning software like (cdburnerXp http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ ) to burn your cd/dvds.

[md2000]

Yeah, I have Win7 (and worked with Vista, XP, W2003, W2008, W2012) and never saw the autoformat behaviour. Very odd. I wonder if somewhere once upon a time you answered “yes” to the wrong prompt.