Confused, of Brighton

[Derek Smith]

I've just bought Samsung TS-H552U 16x16x DVD R/RW Internal IDE from E-Buyer. It was a good price, delivered promptly and in good order but without any enclosed driver. Not to be fazed, I perused the Samsung website to find the model not listed. I then contacted their help line who told me that they 'do not support the device'?

I'm obviously missing something, apart from the driver. Can anyone help?

Derek

[_Dobbo_]

Depending on your operating system you shouldn't actually need a driver....

Whenever I've put DVD or CD burners in any computer a driver has never been required, just software to do the burning for you.

[arcturus]

Like Dobbo says. You don't need a driver. Very few drives ship with them these days. Just install and enjoy.

[Derek Smith]

Thanks, gents. I've got Nero 6 but it doesn't seem to want to know.

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

Derek Smith said:

Thanks, gents. I've got Nero 6 but it doesn't seem to want to know.

Check if there's a Nero update for it. Nero only supports drives directly it seems and doesn't play with generic drives (which is a bit daft in my book).

[robertuk]

You've also got to use the Nero that came with the drive in qustion.

sometimes you have to update the motherboard bios/drivers for certain devices to work.

[_Dobbo_]

Like robertuk says - if your copy of Nero came with another drive of any kind don't expect it to work with anything except that drive.

[Derek Smith]

Your suggestion that Nero would not work with all drives seems correct.

I worked out what to do, though. My Samsung drive was recommended to me by a friend who pointed me in the right direction of a driver, so to speak. Problem solved.

It just didn't occur to me that my Nero could be that specific. Back to Easy CD Creator for me.

Regards, and thanks for all your help,

Derek

[malman]

The full version of NERO supports lots of drives. The OEM version that come in the box with a drive will be crippled to support only that type of drive.

[Derek Smith]

I've just bought Pinnacle Instant DVD at a computer fair. It has solved all my problems. Not bad for £6, plus, I suppose, the £2 entrance fee. Funny that. You can get into PC World for free so, when I was stopped at the door and told of the charge, I thought there was going to be something spectacular inside. Instead, all I got was a boot fair.

Derek