Well, having been working on this for a few days I think it's a driver problem with my optical drive. If I uninstall the drive in device manager then restart the computer I can play a blu ray. If I stop and come back in 15 minutes, I get the same No disk in drive E message. Repeating the uninstall/reinstall process I again can play a blu ray. But it is stll only temporary. I have done this several times with the same result. Been checking with Samsung and found an upgrade to my firmware for my model but the firmware is for a SB oem code. My code is TM and looking at their chart there is no TM oem code. Been on hold with Samsung now for about 30 minutes. Hope my phone battery lasts.
Thanks for the response. I've also got feelers out on Tom's Hardware and Maximum PC but I seemed to have stumped everybody.
And for what it's worth I installed a different brand drive and got the same No disk in drive E message. I didn't bother to do the uninstall/reinstall routine because it was a Panasonic/Matsushita drive manufactured in 2011 and finding firmware for it was impossible. Besides-Don't care much for Panasonic or Matsushita.
Thanks again for at least looking.
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