I have a NEC CD-RW NR-9300A drive that came with my DEll dimension 4800 system. I reformat the drive and now my CD drive won't work anymore. Could you help me locate this driver for me as I have looked on the internet but most driver only support the retail version not the OEM that already install with the system. Thanks.

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: NEC
Model: NR-9300A
Interface: IDE
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Age of Device: Not specified
FCCID:

Type of drive: cd-rw, cd-rom (rewriter & reader)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Easy Cd Creator/version

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=716&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=3&qm0=NR-9300A&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=NEC+CD+%2F+DVD++NR-9300A+Windows+XP+Professional+) | Research manufacturer NEC (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=716)

Optical drives never require a driver when used in Windows XP. An optical drive is installed automatically by the os... not by manual installation like other hardware, using a driver. Windows does not provide any notification of it being installed either. In fact you won't know it until you look in My Computer or Device Manager or Windows Explorer and see it listed there.

Is the drive listed in My Computer?

If not, please read post #24 in this thread: http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=21669&page=4

It contains instructions on the delete the upper and lower filters fix

Also, there is a STICKY posted in this forum that contains a file from Microsoft and instructions that will do this registry edit automatically instead of having to do it manually.


And here's another method that will do this automatically for you if you're afraid to edit the registry manually.

http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=22131
(automatic fix, post #7, download file: CdGone.zip)

Just wanted to say thanks Jerry for the information/link concerning the registry edit, lower & upper filters fix. It worked a treat! :hail:

Great.... it's nice to hear a thank you.