Windows 10: displaying disc content

i am having no success at dispalying disc content when the disc is inserted into the laptop. anyone know how to get that content onto the screen? Thank you

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DVD-R disc - contents not recognized

Of course, you answered what would be my first question (are they finalized?) in your post. Your other info suggests that you know the drill, and have excluded some of the usual reasons. I suspect that your DVD recorder is producing discs that break the rules for either the Windows 10 file system drivers or your Win10 machine's DVD drive firmware, or both, in a subtle way.

I assume you are trying to import the video to your editing software.

What about trying alternate means of getting the files off the disc (ISObuster for generic optical media recovery; DVD ripping software like DVDFab, AnyDVD HD, etc). Or connect an external USB DVD drive, preferably another brand from your internal, and see if it will read the discs.

I have an ancient Panasonic standalone DVD video recorder which once produced discs that my PC could not read just as you describe. In the end I discovered that there was a formatting issue (after finalization it was writing bad blocks at the end of the disc, which fooled the PC into thinking it was unformatted). This was ultimately solved with a firmware update for the recorder. In the meantime, I used DVDFab (which bypasses CDFS rules because it must deal with copy protection schemes) to extract the contents of the disc and it allowed me to do what I wanted to.

 

Windows Media Player is unable to access media contents from disc.

Hello Miriam,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

To be able to assist you better, let us know a few more details on the below questions.

• Did you check if the content of the disc is visible in the File Explorer view?
• Did you check if Windows Media Player is able to access media contents from other media devices (USB/disc)?
• Do you receive any related error messages or is it simply unresponsive?

As an initial recommendation, I suggest you to place the computer in a Clean Boot state and check if there are any third party application/software to be causing the issue.

A clean boot is performed to start Windows by using a minimal set of startup programs. This helps eliminate software conflicts that occur when you install a program.

How to perform a clean boot in Windows

Note: As the article is designed for Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and Windows 7. Unlike launching step for 'System Configuration', options and steps to Clean Boot are same for Windows 10.

Disclaimer: Please go through the section: How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with clean boot of the Kb article to boot the computer in normal startup after fixing the issue.

Write to us with the updated status and the required information for us to be able to assist you further.

 

Disc for windows 7 to run on windows 10

Hi Jane,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft community.

I suggest you to follow the below steps to read the Windows 7 disc and check if it helps.

• Insert Windows 7 disc.
• Press “Windows+E” which will open file explorer.
• There you will find the Windows 7 disc.
• Open the disc and copy the files anywhere on your computer, so that you can access the information from the disc.

Hope this information was helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.