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Trying to add a Micro Advantage CD-RW drive to a 6yr old Dell

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Borg20001

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My in-laws have an old Dell 4?00 PC running WinXP Home sp2. I tried to install the Micro Advantage 523CDRW-A13 drive into it along with the standard CD-ROM drive (I think it is a Lite-on).

WinXP hardware device manager sees both drives fine. As does windows explorer as the Lite On CD-ROM drive and the CD-RW drive. I installed Nero Express 5.5.9.15D which came with the drive and when I went to burn a CD, Nero only listed an imagewriter CD-RW drive, so basically it would only make an CD-R image on my hard drive and would not burn any CDs.

Does anyone have an idea what I can do to get around this?

My first guess would be to install a newer version of NERO and see if it would recognize the CD RW drive. My 2nd guess would be to remove the CD-ROM drive and just have the CD-RW drive alone in the pc.

Both have the jumper set to CSEL (Cable Select) and WinXP seems fine with finding the drive, but I can't get the CD burning software to work properly.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what my next step should be (short of ditching the Micro Advantage (now owned by AOPEN) CD-RW drive?

I searched with Google but found no answers for this Micro Advantage CD-RW drive - it was cheep but I guess I know why now...

Appreciate any feedback
 
For burning CDs, try some of the free burning software such as "Microburner". There are several others, but I use this one.

Your Nero may be an old OEM copy that is looking only for specific burners. I have a version 5 Nero (from years ago) that will not work unless certain drives are present in the system, and will not work with some drives at all. Sometimes it helps to use the ATAPI update files from Ahead Nero. The retail copy is supposed to work with more drives and have updates. Neros current version last I heard was up to 7.


Jim
 
Thanks Jim,

I have an extra $3.00 OEM version of Nero Express 6 that I might try before going to the microburner program, but I will probably grab that as well on-line in preparation for using it. Thanks for the advice.
 
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