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CD Burner not recognized in Nero
Name: basket_case3 Date: September 11, 2004 at 16:42:34 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP / 512mb DDR
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I just purchased a new Mitsumi CR-487ETE burner and installed it. I have it as my Secondary Master in D:, and my older burner as my Seconday Slave in E:. The computer recognizes both drives just fine. In Nero, version 5, it only recognizes my old burner and not the new one. I have no idea why it does this. The burner did not come with any drivers or other software. I downloaded one driver from the website, but that seems to do nothing. Please help.
Name: per Date: September 11, 2004 at 16:50:34 Pacific
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Nero 5.0 may not recognize a newer drive as the firmware was probably not updated for it. This occurs frequently with older burner programs.
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Response Number 2
Name: per Date: September 11, 2004 at 17:01:01 Pacific
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That should have read " the software was not updated to accomodate the new drive"
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Response Number 3
Name: goldengek Date: September 11, 2004 at 17:04:45 Pacific
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just install the latest version of nero. that should solve the problems
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Response Number 4
Name: Richard59 Date: September 11, 2004 at 17:15:20 Pacific
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If your version of nero came shipped with your old burner it will not recognize any other drive. You may have to buy nero6 as I don't think the "Bundled" versions allow for updating.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you feed him for life.
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Response Number 5
Name: michael2 Date: September 11, 2004 at 18:44:52 Pacific
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'Bundled' versions only wotk with the drive they were shipped with. If you had the 'unlock serial' for your model, this would lift the restriction.
Nero 6 is out now and there might not be any updates for version 5, but I believe you can get them (and save them to CD-R for the future) from..... www.oldversion.com
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Response Number 6
Name: Greensystemsgo Date: September 11, 2004 at 21:00:06 Pacific
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How do you figure out what version you have?
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Response Number 7
Name: zeb001 Date: September 12, 2004 at 02:28:22 Pacific
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you may just uninstall nero and then reinstall it.let it find the new drive during installment.
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Response Number 8
Name: Lesley Date: September 12, 2004 at 02:33:40 Pacific
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Nick
Run the Program and then go to Help\About - that will give you the Version number
Lesley
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Response Number 9
Name: basket_case3 Date: September 12, 2004 at 23:46:17 Pacific
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No, Nero 5 didn't recognize the new burner, even after re-installation. I did install Nero 6 and it recognized the new drive. Problem solved. Thanks for the help guys.
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