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    Anyone Running Windows 7 with Blu-Ray Read/Write BD-RE UJ235A

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by The_Shirt, Dec 20, 2009.

  1. The_Shirt

    The_Shirt Notebook Evangelist

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    I posted earlier asking for help, but now I am just curious if anyone has the BD-RE UJ235A working with Windows 7 in their M15X?

    If so, did you have to do anything special to get it to work. This evening I upgraded the BIOS to current, but still have no luck. Regular DVDs work, just not Blu-Ray - says either disk is blank or format is unsupported. I even moved back from the Nvidia beta driver to the one Dell has listed on the support site.

    I really don't think the drive is defective (works for games, burning DVDs, regular DVDs), I just think I may be missing something that should make the Blu-Ray portion work.

    Thanks in advance for any assistance.
     
    The_Shirt, Dec 20, 2009
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    Speedy Gonzalez Xtreme Notebook Speeder!

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    i have the same drive on my M17X all you have to do is uninstall the drive driver and reboot let windows install the driver that works perfect and you can watch movies with power dvd 8 :)
     
    Speedy Gonzalez, Dec 20, 2009
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    Tried what you did and I still get the "disc with unsupported format in drive D:". I will still have to wait to see if anyone with an M15X can get it to work with Windows 7, or if no one can, then I will know it's a system issue. Thanks for the advice though, really thought it might work!
     
    The_Shirt, Dec 20, 2009
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