DVD drive Ownership and Permissions problem.

I have had this problem for a while and i have tried many different solutions but none seem to fix the fault.

when i put a disk in the DVD drive it give Unknown icon on the drive and when i try to enter it says
"f:\ is not accessible. Access is denied"
but when i start the pc in safe mode or use the default Administrator account, the Drive works perfectly.

when I go to the owner tab under advanced security it says
"current owner: Unable to display current owner."
and when i try and set the owners it never changes.

In the permissions window it says
"No permissions have been assigned for this object."
and when i try to add my user to the permission it says
"unable to save permission changes on ( f: ). access is denied"

I have removed the device and drivers completely and reinstalled them but the problem continues.

I tried a new admin account and it has the same problem as my main account.
i tried to set the ownership in the systems Administrator account but it does not have a security tab in the properties of the Disk Drive.

Hi ThelifeofThomas,

If your OS is Windows 7 Professional or higher,

Go to Start > Run, type gpedit.msc and press OK.

Go to User Configuration > Administrative templates > System > Removable Storage Access and check all states especially those pertaining to CD and DVD -Deny write access, Deny read access - are " Not configured" If not right click on those > Edit, change it to "Not Configured" > OK

Close the Local Group Policy Editor, reboot and then check your optical drive read / write access.

Good luck.:)

essenbe: I tied sharing the drive and it had no effect.
and I have tried taking ownership many times but it never takes account that i have done it and it continues
to say "Unable to display current owner".

Layback Bear: I've updated my specs they should make more sense now

jumanji: I have home premium but i have installed gpedit.msc and i do not have the Removable Storage Access section.

I have remove the Disk drive completely from the registry and it has reinstalled fine.

Do you mean removing the upper/lower filters from the registry?