Windows 10: Rip R2 DVDs on BD-ROM drive?

Hey, all

Okay. I live in the States. On earlier PCs I made sure my DVD drive was region-free. Around half of my DVDs are R2. I have a region-free DVD player, but no TV to hook it to (my monitors default to VGA, DVI and HDMI). My BD player exploded, so I watch things on my monitor or not at all.

I have some of my R2 DVDs out that I'd love to watch, but I'm going to have to be able to rip them. When I try to just play them (at least Windows sees them as data disks) I get the old Invalid Region error.

Any suggestions on how I might rip my R2 disks to watch the episodes? Or does anyone make region-free firmwares any more? (Hopefully that's not a forbidden question hereabouts. No offense was meant.)

Thanks!

Davey

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How to permanently delete a BD-Rom Drive?

Hi Maypher, I am Paulo. I'm an Independent Advisor and an individual like you inclined to help.

BD-ROM DRIVE means Blu-Ray Disk Read Only Memory Drive. This usually shows when you install a Virtual Drive using software like Daemon Tools, PowerISO, etc. to mount .ISO files and many other data formats. Do you use any virtual software? If so, you can use
that to remove BD drives or you can follow these steps to disable in Device Manager

1. Press Windows key + X

2. Click Device Manager

3. Expand CD/DVD ROM

4. Right-click on the driver where it says something like "Virtual"

5. Choose to disable

There are also suggestions from other users in this thread

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Let me know if this helps.

 

Lite-On BD-ROM Drive Hits Retail for $199

Good news for American Blu-ray fans. Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) USA has announced that the DH-4O1S Blu-ray BD-ROM SATA drive will be available through retail outlets in the U.S. in late November at a suggested list price of $199.99. The new Lite-On DH-4O1S is the perfect all-in-one disc reading device for most popular media formats including Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD discs. It reads BD-R/RE/ROM, Single-layer or Double-layer media at 4X maximum. Single Layer DVD ±R or DVD-ROM can be read at 12X max, while Double Layer DVD±R and Single Layer DVD±RW can be read at 8X max. CD-R/RW/ROM has a maximum read speed of 32X. The DH-4O1S BD-ROM retail pack comes with an extra silver bezel to match some computers, and a SATA cable for easy connection. Also included in the package is the latest Cyberlink Power DVD software for playback of Blu-ray disc media, DVD, or CD multi-media content.





Source: CDRLabs

 

Extra BD Rom Drive

Hi. please advice why my computer appear to have more that 1 (up to 16) BD -ROM drive. How do I remove that. Tq