Blank DVD Disk Not Recognized By Windows Explorer
Jan 6, 2010
(Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit, SP-2, IE-8, WM-6, WLM-09, classic mode, dial-up.)
About once a month I backup many files onto a blank DVD disk. Currently, if I insert one of those partially full DVDs into my drive-E, it is recognized and everything works normally. When I started my January backup two days ago I find that if I insert a blank DVD Windows Explorer does not recognize it, and tells me to insert a disk. If I then again click on the drive-E, the hour-glass curser appears for several minutes, but nothing else happens. Per Task Manager, "Windows Explorer is not responding." Using Task Manager is the only way I can close Windows Explorer. I have tried this with several partially recorded disks, and with several blank disks, all from the same manufacturer, same style, etc. Process is the same: Windows Explorer handles previously used disks as it always has, but fails to recognize new blank disks.
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