Question XBox 360 HD-DVD Drive Issues

[doinitsideways]

I recently tried to fire up my old hd-dvd drive in windows 10. It reads and plays DVD's without an issue, but whenever i insert any of my HD-DVD windows 10 shows the file system as unknown and cannot open or play the drive... please see attached screenshots.

What could be causing this?? I would assume that if the drive can play a standard DVD then it must be working ok...

 

[Barty1884]

What are you using to playback the content?

 

[doinitsideways]

What are you using to playback the content?

GDay Barty. At the moment i dont have any playback software installed except VLC. But i remember in windows 7 when i last had it running i could browse the filesystem... whereas now it sees there is a disc, labels it as a DVD but with an 'Unknown' file system?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iTjavXmo7MsfonsRq3L-v94a4vgIR8V1

hd-dvd warning.JPG

drive.google.com

hd-dvd.JPG

drive.google.com

 

[Barty1884]

Yeah, W10 dropped native support for playback & other elements, so I'm not 100% sure.
I suspect, with the right software/codecs installed, you'll be fine.

 

[doinitsideways]

Yeah, W10 dropped native support for playback & other elements, so I'm not 100% sure.
I suspect, with the right software/codecs installed, you'll be fine.

Yeah, W10 dropped native support for playback & other elements, so I'm not 100% sure.
I suspect, with the right software/codecs installed, you'll be fine.

Barty,

No issues getting the right software, im just trying to avoid shelling out $$ for something that doesnt work. Ive got about 30 or 40 HD-DVD from before they lost the war with BluRay, if i can get them running i just want to rip them all into my Plex library so i can turf the discs/drive

 

[Barty1884]

From some Google searching, MakeMKV works (and is free, I believe).
Worth checking whether the HD-DVDs are accurately detected with that initially.

While I'm sure there are better (paid) options, at least that gives you a starting point to see if software inside Windows can truly detect/read the disks.

 

[doinitsideways]

OK, a little more delving and googling led me to a UDF 2.5 reader... disabled driver signing and installed this and its now reading the UDF file structure of the HD-DVD...

UDF 2.5 Drivers from here
https://codecpack.co/download/Toshiba-UDF-XP-Driver.html

Thanks all.

Hope this might help others...

 

[doinitsideways]

NUTS... rebooted and lost it again????