I lost the driver for the Dell E-machine due to a virus. I had never opened the case since purchasing unit from store. A virus trashed the Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology DVD+_R/RW Drive Model TS-H552. Additional info. on drive label: TS-H552B/GAAH 6GGY335231 F/W=GA04 H/W:A ver.B March 2005

Can anybody offer any help in obtaining the driver?

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: Toshiba
Model: Ts-H552B/GAAH
Interface: Parallel Port
Operating System: Windows XP Home
Age of Device: Not specified
FCCID:

Type of drive: dvd-r/cd-rw (dvd burner, dvd reader, & cd burner combo)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Nero/version

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=1066&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=3&qm0=Ts-H552B%2FGAAH&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Toshiba+CD+%2F+DVD++Ts-H552B%2FGAAH+Windows+XP+Home+) | Research manufacturer Toshiba (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=1066)

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/Samsung_TS-H552B/Images/front.jpg


If you look at the photo below, you will see this drive has an IDE interface.

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Articles/Sources/Samsung_TS-H552B/Images/back.jpg

After Windows detects the drive, you should see "TSST corp CD/DVDW TS-H552B" in Device Manager and My Computer.

Optical drives never require a driver when used in any Windows os from Win95 up. Windows XP and Windows Vista both provide 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, ie: drive is not listed in "My Computer", 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)


Alternately, download and install the DVD fix from the Web site below.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs


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