Windows 10: Close / Finalize DVD Disc

HI all

Have recorded onto DVD-r disc but cannot find any means of closing / finalizing the disc which means we cannot play the disc on our DVD player. We have just installed the windows 10 update but cant find how to do it.

Cheers


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Getting a DVD/CD ready to be recorded on

For best compatibility especially with stand-alone CD/DVD players you should select "With a CD/DVD player" (obviously, as the name suggests). With this you can only burn once per CD-R or DVD-R, so you need to select all your data to ideally fill the disc
at one go.

On the other hand "Like a USB Flash Drive" will not close/finalize the disc and even though you might be using a CD-R or DVD-R instead of RW, it'll still allow you to add files with subsequent burning sessions on the same disc (eventually when the disc is
full it'll be closed/finalized). Not all players can handle such discs though.

 

Windows 10 Cant read DVD-RW disc in VR format on HP 8530w pro laptop or Dell Optiplex 380

Will this DVD play in other operating systems (perhaps in a friend's or relatives machine)?

It might be something like the following that is your problem?

Was the DVD Finalized in the consumer electronics DVD recorder before you tried to play the DVD in a Windows machine?

When you try to use DVD-Rs or DVD-RWs interchangeably, a consumer electronics DVD player or DVD recorder may be incompatible with the DVD drive in a Windows Vista-based computer

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/931698

Close or finalize a CD or DVD

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows-vista/close-or-finalize-a-cd-or-dvd

A Step by Step Guide for Dealing With Unfinalized DVD Discs

A Step by Step Guide for Dealing With Unfinalized DVD Discs

 

Does this work?
To close a disc session manually

• Open Computer by clicking the Start button
  
  , and then clicking Computer.
  
• In Windows Explorer, click the disc burner drive, and then click Close session on the toolbar.
  The session will be closed, so the disc can be used in other computers.

 

When I create data discs from within File Explorer on Win8.1 and Win10 I usually am given a choice of using the disc on other computers or as a USB drive which allows working with the data as if it was a USB drive. Usually an R is Recordable once, become the same as a ROM disc. Windows Explorer on Win7 and earlier did the same for me. Some Optical disc recording programs can format the discs differently, make them RW/ReWriteable for adding more data later.

 

I have been trying to create a DVD with some photos and while they can be read on Windows 10 computers, they cannot be read on my DVD player. This is because the DVD write session has not been closed, as evidenced by the fact I can add more photos from my computer. The settings for the recording are to close the session after a mastered burn, but I don't see how to choose mastered - I just get UDF. Also the suggestion to get a close the session from the toolbar doesn't work in Windows 10. So, the question remains: how do I close a DVD session (or indicate I want to create a mastered burn). Thanks.

 

Use Infrarecorder to close (finalize) disk so you can use it on a DVD player. Get it from Ninite

 

Thank you evanjva1. This worked well. *092