Windows 10 Used an external DVD drive - Tale of Woe follows

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I didn't know when I purchased my new laptop that there was no drive to play my dvds. So I bought an external dvd drive, I/O Magic and it still would not play my DVDs, movies etc, commercially produced that always worked before. Cue to a very special DVD, my wedding. It not only did not play it, but it prompted a Format, and I thought, ok, no harm, and I clicked format cos there was no other prompt. It didn't play and instead prompted me to drag files to the DVD!I dug up an old laptop with a DVD drive (possibly the one I used to convert the VHS of my wedding to DVD some years ago) and put the

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