Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: NEC
Model: nec dvd rw nd-2500a
Interface: USB
Operating System: Windows XP Home
Age of Device: < 2 years old
FCCID:

Type of drive: dvd-r/cd-rw (dvd burner, dvd reader, &amp; cd burner combo)
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=0&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=2&qm0=nec+dvd+rw+nd-2500a&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+NEC+nec+dvd+rw+nd-2500a+Windows+XP+Home+)

Optical drives never require a driver when used in any Windows os from Win95 up. Windows XP provides native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. No support for playing dvd disks or for burning dvd or cd-rw disks. For those tasks, compatible 3rd. party recording & dvd decoding software is required.

If your problem is non-detection, 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)

After performing this registry fix, just reboot the pc. Now your drive should be visible in My Computer and work properly.

I have the same exact problem. All of a sudden, my system won't recognize my NEC DVD_RW ND2500A. I haven't a clue as to why this happened because I did nothing out of th ordinary. If you have found a driver, please let me know. I have Driver Detective and Driver Max and they were NO help at all. Just searching the net came up with nothing but pay websites. I did that already and didn't get help with this particular problem. Please let me know if you have had any success. Thank you very much!

Again.... optical drives NEVER require a driver other than the one that comes with the XP operating system. And from your post, it sounds like you don't believe it. Well just keep looking and when you find one, please let me know where you found it at.

If the "delete upper and lower filters fix" (described in post #2) doesn't fix the problem, then most likely you have a defective drive. NEC brand drives are notorious for going bad so you're not the first one it's happened to.