The firmware version 2.18, is that what you ended up with from NEC..? Was the
F/W update from Maddog the same or a different version..?
The drivers you mention (cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys,
storprop.sys) are correct and work fine for both my DVD burner and DVD-ROM
drives.. What burning app(s) are you using, has it been updated lately..?
j;-j


"SilverStream" wrote:

>
> Hey guys! I am new to the forum but have read a few posts and it sounds
> like a helpful community, so...
> I have been burning and playing DVDs on this drive up until last week
> when something happened and I really don't know what.
> In My Computer (XP Pro) my NEC ND-2510A is labelled DVD-RW Drive (E as
> always but when I try and burn/play a DVD there is no DVD drive. WMP
> reads the drive as CD Drive (E and says that I need codecs to play the
> DVD I watched just 2 weeks ago.
> When I go into Control Panel>System>Hardware Tab>Device Manager and get
> the properties of the drive its type is a CD Drive and Windows has given
> it CD-ROM Drive drivers (cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys,
> storprop.sys). So I got the firmware from both Maddog (The makers of
> the drive) and NEC and tried flashing the drive with them in both
> Normal Windows mode AND Safe mode. That did nothing.
> So then I right-clicked, uninstalled the drive, rebooted, re-detected
> the drive let Windows sort itself out then tried flashing again. To no
> avail as Windows had already installed those cdrom drivers again.
> So now I am just goingg to buy a new drive BUT... Will Windows give
> that cdrom drivers aswell? Thanks for reading sorry for the length,
> SilverStream.
>
> P.S. I have also re-installed windows and the problem is still there.
>
>
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> SilverStream
>