Had to return this item. It would not recognize one single DVD I tried. CD's were no problem. I bought it because my new desktop does not have an optical drive so I needed a DVD-RW. Can't burn a DVD if the thing won't recognize any of them. Tried software DVDs, burnt DVD's, and several brand new ones. Put each one I tried  in a laptop & another desktop and they worked with no problem. Software disk that comes in package is not in English & whenever I clicked on ANYTHING on it , I got an error prompt. Extremely disappointed.