DVD/CD Region setting problem

I have a HP notebook with a Toshiba MK 8025GAS master DVD/CD drive with the slave TSST Corp CD/DVD TS-L532M I am having trouble changing the region settings as it states I have 1 change left but when I try to change the setting from Region 1 to Region 4, I get the responce "Unable to update region setting. Make sure the drive contains a region 4 media and you have administrative privilege". Can anyone please advise me what I can do about this? Thank you.

Hi,
The first thing to try is to choose a different Region 4 DVD and see if this works, sometimes you have to try several before finding one that works when resetting the Region Code of the CD/DVD Rom.
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I have a HP notebook with a Toshiba MK 8025GAS master DVD/CD drive with the slave TSST Corp CD/DVD TS-L532M
I am having trouble changing the region settings as it states I have 1 change left but when I try to change the setting from Region 1 to Region 4, I get the responce "Unable to update region setting. Make sure the drive contains a region 4 media and you have administrative privilege".
Can you please advise me what I can do about this? Thank you.

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I have Toshiba notebook and inside is Samsung HDD. If I have problems with it I dont contact Samsung but Toshiba.
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