Windows 10: windows 10 cd/rw disc shows working in device manager does not work

have done all suggestions on the internet Reinstalled cd drive checked drivers In registry there is no upper or lower filters shown Have a portable drive that does work Checked ATPI settings It only shows ATPI control Have run out of what else to do

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DVD-RW drive not working right

I uninstalled the IDE/ATAPI controllers and rebooted and now it says that Windows can't read the disc in the drive and now it's showing up in file explorer as a CD-drive but in device manager it's still showing as a DVD-RW drive and it will show that there is a disc in the Drive but it keeps saying they are blank and a couple months ago I burnt a DVD with it and it worked fine but now for some reason it will not even read a disc or play it ??????

 

clean possibly infected flash drives and CD-RWs

Your steps in post #1 should work for 99% of viruses that may be on a usb flash drive. However, there are a very few viruses that can infect the MBR of a drive. I would use Diskpart from a command prompt (Admin) to clean them. In the command prompt type DISKPART then, at the Diskpart prompt use the commands:

LIST DISKnote the disk number of the usb and use it in place of # in the command:SELECT DISK #
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

After this you will have cleaned the partition table from the usb and created a partition using the whole of the the available space. You can then format this partition in File Explorer.


For a CD-RW, if you right-click on it in File Explorer there is an Erase option.

 

Windows 10x64 Home Not Recognizing a DVD+RW Disc

Hi:

I have several important files (mostly documents, spreadsheets, etc.) that I want to store on a rewritable DVD.

When a DVD+RW disc is inserted in my DVD RW Drive (D and click on it with FileManager, windows is telling me that it can not read the disc in drive D:/ and prompts me to make sure that the disc uses a format that windows recognizes and that the disc must be formatted.

So, my first question is: how to determine if my RW disc is already formatted noting the above situation?
Second questions is: How should the DVD+RW disc be formatted, if that is required, what file format structure, NTFS?

I am attempting to make use of some TDK DVD+RW discs (e.g., as if they are USB thumb drives). I want to be able to revise the file content and then write-over the existing stored file that is on the DVD+RW disc. IOW, use the DVD+RW disc as a RAM.

I've read elsewhere that I should open AutoPlay: So, in FMgr, I right-clicked on DVD RW Drive (D and then clicked Open AutoPlay; but nothing happens.

Please help. And, any suggestion to continue this in some other sub-forum of tenforums.com would be appreciated.

TNX.




Edited:
I noticed that "Format" is not shown as an available choice after right-clicking on the DVD+RW icon; whereas each of my other drive devices do offer a "Format" choice.

I found several DVD+RW discs here that were previously written to, a long while ago. Each of these discs give me the same error message as an unused disc. It appears that formatting of the disc is not the real issue here.

I am now thinking there may be something in OS or driver that is the root cause of my problem. The DVD+RW device hardware is TSSTcorp&Prod_DVD+-RW_SH-216DB, and is using a Microsoft Driver Dated 6-21-2013. Device Properties > Device shows "This device is working properly.".

So, I ask for suggestions on troubleshooting.