Nero 5.5.5.1 permissions in WinXP

I have just loaded the trial version of Nero 5.5.5.1 into my windows XP system. On loading the program, I get an error message saying that under 2000/NT I have to have permission to access CD-R drives before it will recognise the drive and to contact the system administrator. I am logged in as administrator, so I do not know what to do. The drive is not recognised by Nero, although the file copy in Windows Explorer works well, as does Easy CD creator, which I tried after uninstalling Nero. My drive is a Plextor 1610 which has previously worked well with Nero 5.5.3.0 (which also gave me the same error message).

Does anybody know what I should do to give the program rights to access the CD-R drive?

Thanks

Frankie

Do you have winaspi32.dll (the ASPI layer) running (You can check with Task Manager)?

[DeathDisaster]

did you use the ntfs-system?
a friend of mine said that ntfs didnt recognize the burner and said to him that he has only 2 cd-roms.

he has to deinstall xp and install it with fat32. now it works fine.

cu
DeathDisaster

did you use the ntfs-system?
ANSWER: YES but that's not relevant. The burner is hardware and the CD is in CDFS format. You simply have to install the burner; admittedly it's easier if the burner is already recognised by XP. Since this thread started, I did some work to prove XP through and these are the results:

I took a Windows XP PC that had no burning software on it and achived complete success with CDRWin, Nero and CloneCD. These are the principal steps I used, note particularly step 2c) for CDRWin 3.8D:

STEPS
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1/
Plugged a Yamaha 2100S into the SCSI port. Recognised and installed by XP.

2/
a) Installed licensed version of CDRWin 3.8D. On loading, gave error message that ASPI layer not found

b) Installed Goldenhawk.com version of ASPI kit. It put wnaspint.dll in SYSTEM32 directory. CDRWin still did not work.

c) Renamed winaspint.dll to wnaspi32.dll. THIS TIME CDRWin 3.8D WORKED OK.

d) Upgraded to CDRWin 3.8F. This installed updated wnaspint.dll driver. So I renamed wnaspi32.dll to something else to see if 3.8F needed this name. CDRWin 3.8F worked with wnaspint.dll.

3/
Installed licensed Nero 5.0 and updated to Nero 5.5.5.1. Worked perfectly - no further manipulation required.

4/
Installed licensed CloneCD 3.0.8.1 and updated to 3.1.0.0. Worked perfectly - no further manipulation required.

CONCLUSIONS
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a) A fresh install of software is a guaranteed way with XP.

b) The ASPI layers for CDRWin and Nero are inter-operable

c) Point 2c above removes a problem with 3.8D and thus possibly with XP upgrades

Hope this helps