Thanks to all of you for the suggestions.
I'm going to leave it there and do a Windows repair.

Thank you Berton,
Yes it shows up in Disk Management and Yes it will play commercial DVDs (films etc) OK

Thanks Malok,
I tried these ideas.
There is no Upper or Lower filter in the right-hand...

Many thanks for the quick reply.
It is not necessarily the burning of media, I can't even use the "send to DVD RW Drive" in explorer or drag a file across to the DVD or do a simple Format.

Yes,...

Windows 10 Vers 21H2 Build 19044
Lenovo ideapad 330
Asus SDRW-08D2S external USB DVD drive

The above DVD drive has recently stopped working. The drive shows up in explorer OK and if I insert...

Man thanks for the reply.
I managed to get it working OK eventually. Not quite sure what it was!

I have an external 1TB HDD connected by usb to my Win 10 laptop. Although Windows explorer shows it's drive letter OK, it just says "Location not available" when I try to access it. Any other...

Very many thanks for your help.
This has solved the problem and all is back to normal. Not only has it restored my disc info but also my faith in these forums!

Geoff

I have the following:
{7988B............................
{ECCDF..........................
{ef43ec...............................
{fbeb8.........................................

The top 5 in...

The "Enable quota management is already unticked. I tried ticking and then unticking again but still same problem.

Up until a few days ago, I could view the size & space available on my "C" drive and external drives by right clicking and looking in properties. Now, all I can see is a panel called "Quota" and...

Hi, I'm new to this group, so hope I am in the right board.
I have an HP15 Notebook which has been running slow since a Win10 upgrade (Although this might have just heightened the problem). ...