I seem to recall being able to do this previously in XP though. What I'm
trying to do is set my father up with a CDRW that he can use to add & edit
documents to without having to burn new CDR discs. He refuses to put the
documents on the hard drive (don't ask me why) and had been using a floppy
disk until it finally died on him. This of course caused much grief, for him
and me!

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> The only time a CDRW has to be formatted is if you are using it with packet
> writing software (not a part of Vista). Then the disk will appear to act
> just like a hard drive, allowing you to add individual files and delete
> individual files.
>
> If you use such packet writing software you format the disk through the
> utility that comes with such software. You do NOT format using what comes
> with Vista.
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "Escher" <Escher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:17D54AEB-10F8-43A4-AC1A-A9175562B7B6@microsoft.com...
> > Running Vista Ultimate x64 w/ SP1 and I'm getting this error when
> > attempting
> > to format a CDRW. I found a hotfix that was included in SP1 that was
> > supposed to fix this very problem, but obviously it doesn't. I couldn't
> > find
> > a newer hotfix, so I figured I'd ask here if anyone knew of a solution.
>
>