Windows 7 can read udf

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Mike Hall There are a few clues here.. Saving files in this way has never been a good idea. You are lucky if a disk created on one computer will read on another. Save the files onto the computer which sees the files, and then do a standard burn to resave them to disk or transfer them to a thumbdrive..

How satisfied are you with this reply? The driver of Windows 7 fails to access the information. The UDF formatted disk was written on a Linux system. But I think it has same problem. The article link that you posted is meant reading UDF 2. I'm having similar issue to read UDF file format on windows 7 machine. I created the discs myself about a year ago using ImgBurn under Win7. Since then, I had to reinstall Windows following a hardware upgrade.

Now I can't read many of my old discs. I discovered that I could suddenly read my discs again as soon as I reinstalled "ImgBurn", but as soon as I rebooted, the ability to read UDF discs was gone again. Unimaginably frustrating. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.

Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Can't read UDF format discs Win7. Thread starter Mugsy Start date Nov 27, I reinstalled Windows 7 64bit after moving to an SSD. Microsoft's Knowledge Base posts a " hotfix ", but it didn't work.

I searched online and lots of people seem to have this same problem, but no one has a fix. What a pain. Copying the discs to the HDD every time I want to read them is not a long-term solution. And I can't copy commercial BD discs anyway.

At a guess, I would expect MS to address whatever they have done wrong before too long. Try the website of your DVD manufacturer. At worst, if there is no software solution within a couple of months, you might have to consider replacing the drive, at least you can return a new drive if it fails you too.