I bought a like new, "works great" XBox360 HD DVD player with the intention of hooking it to my WIndows 7 desktop to convert HD DVDs to BluRays. I was told, just plug it in and the PC will recognize it as a Toshiba drive. I have plygged it into 4 different PCs, all with the same result. The PC fails to recognize it. Is there a driver I need or the remote? I have no way that I know of to test this unit, I don't have an XBox. I'm stymied.
either the drive does not get power (easy to tell, just eject tray and see if it works), the USB adapter built-in to the drive is busted, or the drive itself is bad.
Thanks. It does power up - drawer opens and closes and you can hear the drive spinning trying to read the disc. But that's it.
Does the drive show up in device manager under DVD/CD drives? EDIT: also try another USB cable and see if that fixes it if it does not show up
No, it does not show up in Device Manager. Or Windows Explorer. I tried more than one cable. I did have it plugged into a USB 3 port. Do you suppose that would make a differencee?
Possibly. If it still does not work in a USB2 port, My guess is that the drive or the USB adapter for the drive is broken and the drive will not work with anything.
Windows 7 - 64. Software? Well, I had noped to rip the HD DVDs with AnyDVDHD. But of course, haven't gotten that far.......
I don't believe that Windows 7 supports HD DVD but I could be wrong. I thought XP or Vista was the last to support HD DVD.
It was my understanding that regardless of "support" under Windows 7, it should recognize the drive as a Toshiba drive. Perhaps that's where I've gone wrong. I do have a laptop with XP on it. Perhaps I should give that a try.
Win 7 supports HD DVD drives no problem, I have an old LG drive that supports HD DVD and it has no problems under Win 7
Works fine with Windows 10 64-Bit, the drive uses the standard CD-ROM drivers that have existed forever.