I have a used NEC ND-3520a I got from a friend.  It looks like he flashed it with the Freecom 3.40 firmware, but I want to go back to the OEM firmware.  However, everytime I attempt to flash with NEC's 3.06 firmware, I get an error that says that "NEC ND-3520a cannot be found" (or something to that effect).  How can I go about flashing the OEM firmware?  Also, is there a firmware version that will allow me to change the booktype of a DVD+R to DVD-Rom?  Thanks in advance and I apologize ahead of time for the newbie questions.

Which flasher do you use?

(in reply to ebega)

I'm still really new to flashing and wasn't aware there are various flashers.  When I go to device manager, the drive registers as Freecom_DVD+/-RW16B6, not NEC..., I download the firmware and attempt to flash using the .exe file supplied by NEC (from NEC's website).  Because it is coming up as a "Freecom" drive it will not continue.  Is there another flasher I could use to flash this drive back to NEC firmware?

edit: I think I got it figured out....I first saved the firmware as a .bin file with NECDump and then flashed with BinFlash (gui).  Is this a safe method?  Should I have done something different?  Everything works great....I guess I was looking in all the wrong places for info last night.  This site is great and I will be returning often for more info.  Thanks for all the help guys.

(in reply to Antonio)

Yeap that's a safe way to go.

(in reply to ebega)