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Problems with Windows 11 not recognizing Blu Ray Burners
It appears that Windows 11 has stopped recognizing my Blu-Ray Drive as a Burner. The symptoms are the 'Format' option has disappeared and the eject button does not work. I have 2 external BD Writers;...
Did you ever test 3rd party dvd player apps on your machine? I had the same issue re: my asus bluray drive and found that one of those player apps (which I uninstalled after a short trial period) had a LowerFilters entry written into the pertinent registry key without deleting it on uninstall
the said registry key being HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
After having deleted the orphaned LowerFilters entry there, and restarting the PC, the drive was fully functional again.
Any LowerFilters (or UpperFilters) entries there might be leftovers of respective Player software installations