Can't change my region 3 disc drive to region 2

I have an external disc drive for my MacBook Pro Retina (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2) - the drive isn't Apple but is supposedly designed for MacBooks. Its default setting was region 3 but I live in the UK and am therefore in region 2, so I had a dialog box open telling me to change the region of my drive. I clicked region 2 and tried to set the preference but the dialog box closed along with the DVD player every time I tried this. It will not change the region and I can't play any dvds so does anyone know if there's a way around this issue?
(Only bought a non-Apple drive because the Apple one was too expensive for me at the time - think I got what I paid for with this drive unfortunately!)

Yeah that's what I've been trying to do but every time the dialog box comes up to let me change it I click on all the right things and the dialog box closes and the DVD still won't play, and then next time I try to play a DVD I get the same dialog box and the same thing happens.

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