Windows 10: External DVD burner will only read discs

Discus and support External DVD burner will only read discs in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; Greetings, last night i tried to burn off some photos with my external dvd-rw drive "Samsung SE-208". However when i tried it said the burn failed to... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by smegcorp, Jun 21, 2016.

  1. SMEGCORP
    smegcorp Win User

    External DVD burner will only read discs


    Greetings, last night i tried to burn off some photos with my external dvd-rw drive "Samsung SE-208". However when i tried it said the burn failed to initiate. It would also make several doodoots like i was plugin and unpling stuff from usb.
    Thinking the drive might have seen betters days, i tested it on a laptop and i worked fine. Thinking it may be a driver issue i soon found that the drivers for burning a
    dvd were already built into windows 10 and that it may be a corrupted registry file.
    I went into Regedit in hopes to find the upper and lower registry files that it seems that many had to just remove to get the drive burning again. However i had no such files
    I was reading around some more and was told to delete all registry files from that directory HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318
    Worried that deleting a small batch of registry files i read on in the comments and found people saying it worked. I gave it a shot. I was under the assumption the registry would repair
    its self with a reboot. When i went back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 i found that nothing was left but two files that really seemed to not have anything to do with the dvd burner.

    External DVD burner will only read discs [​IMG]


    I also went into the device manager with the drive pluged in and uninstalled it. When i plugged it back in it now shows up in the unknown section.

    External DVD burner will only read discs [​IMG]


    Im trying to find out what i need to add back to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 in hopes of getting the drive back.

    It reads just fine. Just fails when i try to burn
    Also i used the defult windows burner and Nero.

    One more thing, I was going to try and go back to a restore point but it seems i never turned that on.

    Thank you for any help.

    sorry about the length of the post.


    :)
     
    smegcorp, Jun 21, 2016
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  2. JIMWYNNE
    JimWynne Win User

    Windows 10 recognises my DVD ROM as a CD ROM

    Are you referring to a DVD burner? A "ROM" device is, by definition, read-only and is incapable of burning/recording optical discs. Does the drive work normally?
     
    JimWynne, Jun 21, 2016
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  3. TOMMCRAY
    tommcray Win User
    need to format a blank dvd disc in windows 10

    **** fire ! what kind of answer is that ? I ask a simple question about how to format a DVD disc on external disc burner and you give me the royal run around and eat up all my time !!
     
    tommcray, Jun 21, 2016
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  4. SMEGCORP
    smegcorp Win User

    External DVD burner will only read discs

    I ended up copying the Reg info from my laptop. PC runs fine. Still reads dvd's i just cant get it to write on this pc.

    I was looking over the DVD RW properties and under Events it says 3/23/2016 Device deleted "Device USBSTOR\CDROM&VEN_TSSTCORP&PROD_CDDVDW_SE-208DB&REV_MF00\R8X76YAFC015EG_&0 was deleted.

    Class Guid: {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
     
    smegcorp, Jun 22, 2016
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