USB External DVDRW DriveNew Retail, F6V97AANew Retail)

Bought for my wife for her new computer. She says it works great and was easy to install.

Like I rated my HP computer. I love my HP! I purchased this DVDRW for my HP computer and it works great. But of cause it does, IT's HP!

Bought this external DVD/CD drive (HP USB External DVD RW Drive, New, model F6V97AAN) to go with a new HP desktop computer running Windows 11. That's because computers are sold without disk drives these days. But audiophiles like me prefer higher quality recordings on CDs and DVDs. Out of the box, this drive plays CDs perfectly--it is truly a plug-and-play CD player. BUT it requires third party software to play movies on DVD! No one tells you this, of course. I spent several hours trying to figure out how to get it to play a DVD movie. The drive would grind & grind and lock up my entire computer. I had to physically unplug the drive from my computer to get it to unlock and stop grinding. Once I installed my go-to media software, VLC Media Player, it worked fine. NOW it works fine with DVDs, but not before adding VLC. Save yourself the aggravation that I went through & download VLC *first* before you even plug in this drive. Then you're good to go.

That's all it took: plugged into a USB port, Windows 10 recognized the device.

Used with hp laptop, didn't have to do anything, just plugged it into the USB port and it was ready to go.

Works as described

The listing said "new" it was manufactured in 2024 -3 years ago. It will not work on either of my two computers windows 11. I tried reaching out to HP, however, they cannot find any such model, serial numbers. Therefore no support is available. There are no instructions contained in the packaging. I AM STUCK, WILL NEVER BUY FROM THIS SELLER AGAIN AND DO NOT RECOMMEND

Works, and that's better than the other off brands we tried. Connects well to a hp Windows 11 laptop. Super easy to use.

Très bon graveur pas de faille même avec des dvd de 1ère génération que j'ai retrouvé dans mon grenier

Un pò costoso rispetto ad altri però è HP e ho preferito la garanzia di un marchio di qualità. Funziona bene con i Mac che ho in casa ma, attenzione, se avete dispositivi Apple avete bisogno di un adattatore per collegare il cavo e il lettore esterno. Per il resto funziona in maniera semplice e immediata, intuitivo. Ho provato subito con un CD audio, perfetto e ho testato la funziona di masterizzazione, anch'essa veloce e perfetta. Estetica gradevole, nero, satinato. Ha 4 "gommini" sulla base che rendono stabile l'apparecchio quando viene posto su un piano lavoro. Costosetto ma funzionale e bello da vedere, consigliato.

Läuft gut und leise

Good product can use with pc and laptop as well. Good design. Build quality is also good. Performance is satisfactory as USB drive.

If I could have gone down half a star to four and a half I would have. At first the drive did not show up on my laptop, but as soon as I inserted a CD it did. After looking around for CD ripping programs I settled on one and have ripped well over 30 so far (out of 3,000+!!!!). Some CD special editions even have extra discs that are video/DVD and I have managed to rip these too. I cannot comment on its burning capabilies as I haven't used this facility, and doubt I ever will frankly. So far it is performing well. I occassionally get error messages about importing certain tracks, but that's probably down to the discs rather than this unit, and as far as I can tell, the tracks ripped anyway. My only gripe? In the days when I had a desktop computers with CD/DVD drives in the tower they were fairly sturdy. Laptop CD drives years ago were always flimsy so I expected this to be a bit sturdier, but when the tray is ejected, it does feel very flimsy and I wonder how long it will last with all the ripping I have to do in the future, hence the half point deduction I would like to have given. Overall though, (so far) a very competent piece of kit.