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Sony AW-G170S (S-ATA) DVD-RW Firmware 1.73 was collected from Sony official site for Sony BD/CD/DVD Drive. In order to ensure the right driver download, Official driver links from Sony are listed at first. Sony AW-Q160S Write Errors. CD, DVD and (Ultra HD) Blu-ray Writers. Recorder: SONY DVD+-RW AW-Q160S, Media. Driver for win 2K).

Well I'm truly baffled at your insistence that I get a driver from the manufacturer for Windows 8.1 and run this is in compatibility mode.

The manufacturer's web site in the FAQ states:

http://www.sony-optiarc.us/support/faqs/driver.html

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Where can I download the driver for my drive? Or do I need a driver to my optical drive to run with Windows OS?

For optical drives, the driver support is provided by the Microsoft operating system. In other words, optical drives are supported natively by Windows. Consequently, you should not need a separate device driver. A driver update is not necessary for your optical drive to run with Windows OS.

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They have no drivers at all on their US site, which is a legacy one because Sony closed down Optiarc a few years ago. In fact there are no windows drivers at all for any of their drives because they said,

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Are there any drivers to download?

All Sony Optiarc CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives are ATAPI-devices. There is no need for special drivers when using operating systems like Linux, MacOS or Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win 7. The devices will be handled by the embedded drivers from the operatingsystem.
DVD-RAM works at least with Nero InCD version 4.3.20.1. Under Windows XP, DVD-RAM media can also be written without any driver and writing software. In this case, please follow instructions on Microsoft knowledge database www.microsoft.com [article 283588 and 826510]

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So I don't understand why the native Windows 10 driver doesn't work, or why Windows didn't flag this drive as incompatible with Windows 10. What do you now suggest?

Thanks for your help!

Fred

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