burning techie question

madmallard · Post by **madmallard** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:27 pm

i'm wiping my system and reinstalling everything, right? My friend got me the Sony dvd + and - burner, and i had a 48x buslink knock-off burner too.

the buslink cam with nero, and the sony with some. . .sony software. When you fire up the Nero wizard, you see options to make a dvd, but they're greyed out, and in preferences, it doesn't see the sony drive, even for cds.

any clue on how to get the software to play friendly?

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:32 pm

You cant choose the recorder in, um the Choose Recorder thingy?

Well, there is a way you can go about not using Nero. If you have a dvd authored in a folder you can make an image using IMgTool (see doom9.org) and if you have an image you can burn it with DVDDecrypter - which is really awesome at dvd burning.

madmallard · Post by **madmallard** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:48 pm

no. i mean the sony burning software doesn't acknowledge the cd-burner, and the nero software doesnt acknowledge the dvd burner.

i want everyone to play friendly

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:51 pm

It may be a software issue. I know some versions of Nero are designed to only work with the devicethey come with so you cant use any other devices.

As for the sony software, it could be a similar thing.

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 4:42 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:It may be a software issue. I know some versions of Nero are designed to only work with the devicethey come with so you cant use any other devices.

As for the sony software, it could be a similar thing.

Yup.

Most of the bundled versions of CD/DVD recording apps are set up to only work with the brand/model they came with.

Deliberately "crippled" software sucks.

madmallard · Post by **madmallard** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:28 pm

can i bitch-slap them somehow?

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 7:16 pm

sixstop wrote:can i bitch-slap them somehow?

One of the guys at work had the same problem last week. He even updated Nero from their Web site and it still didn't work. I think what he wound up doing was un-installing Nero, then re-installing the update file. That installs a 30-day demo copy that works for now. The long term solution is to buy the full version.