Hi: I have a DVD-rom in my Sony Vaio PCG-F640 running ME. I made backups of some of my DVD movies (on another computer with a DVD burner). When I tested them on this Vaio, the DVD+R burned copies work fine, but I had bought a spindle of DVD+RW's and these burned movies are not read on the Vaio like the DVD+R's are. The DVD+RW discs spin and click in the DVD rom and the DVD playback software doesn't recognize that there is anything in the drive. When I go to the drive in My Computer, it says to insert a cd into the drive, so it is not the drivers in my DVD playback software. When I try the DVD+RW in the computer that burned the DVD, it works fine (this computer is running XP) I don't understand why my Vaio recognizes DVD+R's, but not DVD+RW's? Please help! Thanks in advance, Gail

It's simple. the drive in your Viao can't read DVD+RW's, only DVD+R's. This is fairly common in laptops. My Dell won't read RW's either.

Thanks for the reply. I suppose there is nothing I can do?

You might be able to go to Sony's website and see if they have any firmware updates for the computer or drive that would allow it to see RW discs.