DVD-R recognised as an Audio CD??

An interesting problem my grandad had just recently.

He's been using Zip disks to store a catalog of information on his music collection (as you do), and he has nearly 700MB worth of files there. Just recently, he's got a DVD Recorder drive, and he thought that he may as well back up all his info onto a DVD-R.

He copied all the existing info onto the DVD-R... and now he uses windows intergrated writing to save information onto the CD (I forget what its called, but it will write the information to the DVD when you save a document to the drive, like saving it to your hard drive).

For some unexplained reason, he now cannot save information to the DVD-R, as its being recognised by windows as an Audio CD... when it is neither audio, nor a CD!

Anyone got any ideas as to WTH is going on?

Have some specs :
Windows ME (fully updated)... DVD-R drive ... 256MB RAM .... not sure about much else. I'll need to find out what dvd writing software he uses...but does anyone have any ideas?

 

First I wounder what Programs is used for DVD burning?
What DVD writer model?
Windows Intergrated writing, maybe try disable while burning to DVD?
Probably not, but DVD media, some have compatiblity issues with different Drives/roms/players, if was case I would try different brand, I'm Kinda new to dvd burning/writing, but I havent made any coasters yet, been using premium media +r & -r (I look for Media which contains AZO MCC Dye)

 

Well when i say Windows Intergrated Writing, i mean like a program that will allow you to save to a DVD just like you'd save to a floppy drive or whatever. It sound like that program is failing to me. I'll have to ask him next time i speak to him