Windows 10: Windows 11 DVD Drive Requires Polling to See Disk Contents

The problem is that CDs appear to be not recognized by the drive/Windows, but yet they are. Normally I would expect that when I insert a CD in this case audio CDs, once it mounts the media, it should pop up in Explorer or if you have Windows Media Player running, it should pop up there too. That’s how it always worked on every computer I’ve ever used. In my case, it doesn’t do that most of the time. And yet, if run DISKPART from a command prompt and enter the command LIST VOLUME, it shows up there and immediately pops into Explorer and/or media player. Same thing happens when I eject t

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Windows 7 Pro, DVD/CD drive stuck with "Files ready to burn to disk" mode.

Step 1: I can insert a CD in drive and it read the contents.

Step 2: I remove CD from drive

Step 3: I insert a DVD -R disk and go through the wizard "option for Creating a Mastered" disk

Step 4: I get to the "files ready to write to disk blank window"

Step 5: I open a second Windows explorer window and highlight photos and drag them to the "files waiting to be written" window.

Step 6: I press Burn disk

Step 7: DVD burns files and closes window. Disk Ejects.

Step 8: I close Both File Explorer windows

Step 9: I open new File explorer window and push in the DVD disk I just burned.

Step 10: I click on the DVD drive, it spins shows no data, window shows "files waiting to be burned" blank screen.

Step 11: I double click on the drive icon and the disk ejects. I reinsert to be presented with same "files waiting to be burned".

Step 12: I eject the DVD and insert a CD and still presented with "files waiting to be burned" Will not display contents nor autoplay... Not even Music disk.

Step 13: I open Device Manager, find DVD burner, Remove it, right click an scan for changes, DVD drive is found and reinstalls

Step 14: I repeat inserting music disk, autoplay prompts, I insert the DVD that I burned and it now "reads the contents"... Drive behaves normally until I burn another DVD.. Then I have to repeat this process to get the drive to read contents of disk's..

Buggy driver or Windows burning software is buggy that after burning, will not release the "files waiting to burn" window.

 

DVD/ CD Drive doesn't recognise disks

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if it fixes the issue.

Method 1: Run Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter

Follow these steps to run Hardware and Devices troubleshooter:

• Press Windows key + W and type troubleshooting.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• Select View all on the top left corner.
• Click Hardware and Devices.
• Follow the on-screen instruction to run the troubleshooter.

Method 2: Check if the DVD drive is getting detected in Disk Management

Refer the steps below to open disc management:

• Press Windows key + X.
• Click on Disk Management.
• Click on Actions and click on rescan disks and click on
  Refresh and check if issue persists.

If there is no drive letter assigned, I suggest you right click on the DVD drive and assign a drive letter and check if it helps:

Method 3

Try to access the computer manufacturer's website and download the latest chipset drivers for your computer and install the same.

Hope this information is helpful. Please do let us know if you need further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk