New Nero 6 doesn't see my drive but ver 5 did

[polarz]

I just formated and reinstalled windows xp and now nero can't see my drive. I was previously using some version of 5.* and everything was fine. My drive is a hp 8200e, it's an older cd burner but it's all I have. Windows shows the drive as "HP Cd-Writer+ 8290 USB" in the device manager, but the drive is definately a 8200e. I used the same drivers, from hp's website, to install this time as I did on my previous working setup. The 8200e is listed on nero's website as a compatible burner, but there is no mention of a 8290. I've speant several hours looking for a solution on both nero & hp's support pages but haven't found squat. If anyone has any suggestions please post them, I'm at the end of my rope here. Thank you.

[Roundabout]

I have one of these same external burners hooked up to my laptop, and I'm using Nero 6 with it without any problems. However, I'm running Win98SE on that laptop and haven't tried it on my desktop that has XP because I have a newer burner in the desktop. If you notice, the front of the burner says "hp cd-writer 8200 series", it doesn't mention a specific submodel (70,80,90,etc). In the device manager, mine also says it's an 8290. I don't think that makes any difference at all in how it is going to work with Nero. Something else is going on with your system. You said it worked before - was it working with XP or 98 (what OS did you have before you formatted and installed XP?).
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling Nero?
In the upper left menu of Nero, what shows on the "recorder" tab? Click on that and "choose recorder" It should at least show the image recorder (HDD) in the list of recorders. Does the HP show up there?

[polarz]

I was using Nero 5.* with xp before and yes I have tried uninstalling then reinstalling. The only thing that I see when I go to choose recorder is the image recorder. I installed a free burning program called "DeepBurner" to see if that would detect and burn stuff and it worked fine. I'm using a demo version of nero6 but I don't think that should have any effect on detecting the burner. I thought about trying to hack the driver to make it say 8200e in the device manager since nero says it supports that drive, but I'm not really sure how to do this and even less sure that it would work. Any more suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks

[polarz]

Going on a tip that I recieved from another forum I found an old version of nero, v5.0, and used the wnaspi32.dll that was packed with that ver. My drive was picked up and burns fine now. Nero must have introduced a bug somewhere along the way. Nero 5.5 has the same wnaspi32.dll as 6.* so I'd guess it was introduced there. Anyway problem solved Hope this helps anyone else with a similar issue.