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Access to CD/DVD Drive is Denied through Windows 7 Explorer (Permission Problem)

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Mar 15, 202677781 views
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A while ago I started having trouble with my optical drives. Both of them keep showing up in Explorer as CD/DVD drives on boot, but as soon as I put a disc in either one, it suddenly turns into a hard-drive—“local disk” is displayed in the column, though the column remains UDF/CDFS. (I though that …

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Fix for: Access to CD/DVD Drive is Denied through Windows 7 Explorer (Permission Problem)

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This behavior is very puzzling, so all I can offer are some hints and more questions. It would help to know whether the CD/DVD drive is shared. If it is, maybe unsharing can help. Second, whether you have a CD-burning software installed, such as Ner…

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