Nero 5.5 doesn't recognise my NEC 3520A

[theDruid]

Hi all,

I have just bought & installed a NEC 3520A, my first DVD burner 8).

I'm very pleased with it, and have already used (DVD Shrink and) DVD Decrypter to burn a couple of DVD-Rs successfully.

However, my Nero 5.5 doesn't seem to recognise the drive.

I have a full retail version (i.e. not a bundled version restricted to the drive it came with) of Nero with the latest update (up to 5.5.10.56).

The NEC drive does not show up when I go to Choose Recorder.

The only way I can get Nero to see it at all is with the Autodetect CD-ROM - which I have not gone through with as I need it to be recognised as a recorder, not just a CD-ROm drive.

Nero InfoTool picks up the NEC drive fine, and as I say I've used it with other apps already, so I know that the drive itself works okay (and it looks fine in the Device Manager, POST etc..)

I don't really want to upgrade to Nero 6 if I can help it, or switch to another burning app.

Should my version of Nero be recognising this drive?

Thanks for any help,
theDruid.

P.S. I have done quite a bit of searching before asking this question; apologies if it has already been answered ad nauseam, but I couldn't find anything relevant here or elsewhere.

[winifreid]

If it is a very new drive, this older version of Nero may not have it listed. Check their site to see if it is there. You may have to upgrade to 6.

[bazooka]

It sounds like 5.5 does not support your drive.

You will probably have to upgrade to Nero 6.6.0.5