Windows 10: LG Slim Portable Disk Writer Cannot Read Disk/Files not Appearing

My grandfather sent me a handful of DVDs containing footage from long ago in my younger years. My goal is to transfer all of this footage onto a thumb drive and send back to him for ease of use. To do this, I bought the LG Ultra Slim Portable Disk Writer. I plugged this into my Dell Desktop via USB, and it read many of the discs just fine, it showed up in my file explorer and upon opening the drive, I saw the files for the DVD and was able to play and convert to a single .mp4 file using VLC media player. However- there are ten or so discs that are appearing as empty discs- no files in the driv

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LG Slim portable DVD Writer

I just received my new LG slim portable external DVD writer and cannot get it to work. I have Windows 10 on my laptop. I have inserted the DVD that came with it and it seems to be read and a few minutes later the writer opens and says insert DVD. I have
done this but am unable to open or view my DVD. When I open documents to check Drive E it is not there. Any suggestions on how to get this to work?

 

LG Slim Portable DVD Writer & Windows 10

I have the external LG Slim Portable DVD Writer that is compatible to Windows 8 and recently downloaded Windows 10 to my Samsung laptop. Now my LG DVD Writer won't play any dvd's, the computer recognizes them and so does the VLC app but won't play it.
Do I have to buy another DVD Writer that is compatible with Windows 10?

 

Cannot connect LG Slim Portable DVD Writer to Surface Pro 4

I am trying to connect a LG Slim Portable DVD Writer to Surface Pro 4 and after insuring all updates are current to my system and plugged directly into USB port of the surface it is not registering. I can hear the drive "whir" at start-up but nothing happens.

Any suggests?

Thanks