YOTUO Portable USB-C External DVD Drive

I plugged it in to my all in one desktop and my desktop doesn’t even see that I plugged something in. Even in my file manager, it doesn’t show anything plugged in. I’d already downloaded a video player. Going to send it back. The description says it is good for Windows 11, but on the box it only goes up to Windows 10. Not sure if I got a faulty one, or if it simply won’t work on Windows 11.

I was skeptical with the price that this would work well and was honestly concerned with the possibility of spyware or something that would breech data. In spite of my concerns, I thought I’d give this a try because I really needed a way to access older family photos we have saved on cds. My software that catches spyware, viruses, etc. did not find anything when I hooked up this DVD player, so I hope they eases anyone else’s worries, too.
The DVD player came and seemed to be of really good quality. It even has a nice velvet bag to store it in when not in use. The instructions are clearly not written by a native English speaker and some bits are a bit vague, so I’ll tell you what worked for me:
1. Before connecting it to your computer, if you want to use it for DVDs, download a DVD player. My computer had a media player for photos and audio, but no DVD player app (which makes sense, since it didn’t have a DVD player!) The DVD player’s instructions say to “download the local famous player.” That’s what it’s talking about 🙂 I downloaded the free Nero player for my old Windows computer.
2. Plug the USB into your laptop. It has two different plug ins, looks like a regular USB and maybe a usb-c. Not sure when your need that other connection, but it’s an option!
3. At this point you may have to change the region for the DVD player. It is set on the east Asian region, so I had to change it to USA/CA.
4. Open the DVD player on your laptop if you want to play a DVD, otherwise just click on the box that pops up on the right side of the screen that says something about the DVD player and click play media.
5. Enjoy your dvd, audio files, or photos!

I did this with my photo cds first and it worked perfectly, then figured out I needed to open the DVD player first when playing a DVD and didn’t have any hiccups with that either.

Works fine, made well, does the job at a really good price. I am very pleased!

I bought this since I did not want to stuff a dvd drive in my new desktop. It was to install some games that my wife has on disc but when connecting it to my new Windows 11 machine it was at first not recognized at all. After trying other ports it was temporarily seen but had warnings for bad drivers in Device Manager. I rebooted my computer to see if it would recognize it on start-up but I got a bios warning that my system was going to shut down to protect against power surges from a USB device.

I have all my USB drivers updated as well as a powered hub which I unhooked everything else from to test. Given this I could test it on another machine in the house such as a windows 10 desktop, but I would rather avoid another round of anxiety caused by a scary bios warning.

I did attempt to locate drivers for it but to no avail. Perhaps I received a faulty unit or perhaps it simply doesn’t play well with my configuration. In the absence of drivers to download and test I am going to simply write off my small loss and look for a better product with some support behind it.

Other than this issue there is the incredibly short USB cable that makes it quite awkward to hook up to your machine.

I needed to get some cd programs on a few laptops with no cd players….worked perfectly…Packaging was also amazing..Highly recommend for a great price…believe me you will need something like this without breaking the bank… A+++