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ASUS External 12X Blu-Ray Burner with USB 3.0 BW-12D1S-U/BLK/G, Black
I got this thing to work on my XP machine last year. It has worked fitfully on my Windows 7 machine. But what I'm noticing is that it will accept the first DVD (not Blu-Ray) disk, but when I eject that and insert a second DVD disk, the disc won't be recognized. I have to use the power switch on the burner just to get the eject button to work again and that disengages the USB connection, which doesn't revive. I have to reboot to get the burner to reappear in My Computer.
I've been doing some research for the past 2 hours. At Amazon, a few people were told by Asus tech support that the unit wasn't supported on Windows 7, but to install it on Windows 8, which seems weird because the burner was on the market before Windows 8 came out. At this site, it's noted that I'm using a VGA output to my 4:3 monitor instead of DVI or HDMI and that invokes DRM on the blu-ray drive, but I wasn't playing Red Box movies yet. I do use DVI on my XP machine to my monitor, so that may be a plus, but I didn't notice any DVI output on my laptop.
I'm getting conflicting thoughts on why the burner only accepts a first disk to play back files on without a reboot.