Post by thread:[OT] Nero can't see drive

I recently re-formatted this PC and found last night that the burner isn't seen by Nero. Prior to the re-format there were no problems at all Drive is LG GSA-4167B, with the accompanying LG DVD Writer Solution and Nero 5.5 CDs. I used these for the previous installation The problem is that Nero offers only Image Recorder (CD-R/RW) as an option for a recorder in the drop-down menu. Using this option will save an .nrg image file to HDD, not a CD The drive will play anything, is in the devices list, and according to XP it's working properly. LG doesn't have drivers as such, only a firmware upgrade for the drive, which I feel isn't necessary AFAICT from Googling, XP drivers are all that's needed. I don't recall needing to do anything special before. Nero and LG forums don't have any enquiries about this particular selection issue Any ideas ? TIA

:: The problem is that Nero offers only Image Recorder (CD-R/RW) :: as an option for a recorder in the drop-down menu. Using this :: option :: will save an .nrg image file to HDD, not a CD :: :: The drive will play anything, is in the devices list, and :: according to :: XP it's working properly. I suggest the following . 1. Uninstall Nero, 2. Trawl though registry and delete any remaining Nero reference. 3. Re-install Nero Whilst I'd expect the registry entry to be a problem if a repair install of XP was done, due to disk and drive identifiers being changed, obviously registry shouldn't exist on a complete reformat. But I suppose it is possible that their has been a corruption on the entries. You don't say if you can burn using the inbuilt software provided with XP or Vista. If this doesn't work, then the problem isn't Nero. Which version/build of Nero is being used? Colin -- cdb, spam_OUTcolinTakeThisOuTbtech-online.co.uk on 22/07/2008 Web presence: http://www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359

A further thought on this problem, have you checked in the DVD burning properties (Windows button + Pause/Break key\ hardware) to see if the burning option has been ticked? I use LiteOn drives and they don't have that option, but I recall the LG ones do. Colin -- cdb, .....colinKILLspam@spam@btech-online.co.uk on 22/07/2008 Web presence: http://www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: http://www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359

> You don't say if you can burn using the inbuilt software provided with > XP or Vista. If this doesn't work, then the problem isn't Nero Tried the XP burn process. Windows led me a merry dance, as it likes to do, so I gave up and burned the files with Real Player > Which version/build of Nero is being used? 5.5.9.2 I'll see what happens with the registry What a nuisance waste of an afternoon

Jinx wrote: > I recently re-formatted this PC and found last night that the burner > isn't seen by Nero. Prior to the re-format there were no problems > at all > > Drive is LG GSA-4167B, with the accompanying LG DVD Writer > Solution and Nero 5.5 CDs. I used these for the previous installation > What service packs did you have on windows before and after the reinstall. IIRC older versions of nero were broken by XP SP2. I would first try upgrading to the latest sub-version of the 5.5 series (upgrading sub-versions within a series is free, going from one series to the next costs money). Failing that maybe try the noexecute=alwaysoff (or something like that, google for the exact way to type it) in boot.ini.

> I recently re-formatted this PC and found last night that the > burner isn't seen by Nero. Prior to the re-format there were > no problems at all > > Drive is LG GSA-4167B, with the accompanying LG DVD Writer > Solution and Nero 5.5 CDs. I used these for the previous installation I've had Nero do that occasionally, (with an LG drive, fwiw), and found a reboot fixed it. Once Nero got it in its head that a drive wasn't a burner, it refused to change it. There's also an option in Nero for selecting the driver type (ATAPI etc) that may be set wrong. Of course, you could have done what I did once, swapped drives and forgot that it wasn't a burner, it could only read DVDs. Nero (v8) suffers from bloat & annoyances these days. Tony

I gave up on Nero. Now when I have to create discs using Windows I've been using Infrarecorder. The only Nero program I still like is Recode to transcode DVDs. But now with cheap hard drives and multi layer DVDs, why transcode anymore anyways? http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/ On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Jinx <joecolquittKILLspamclear.net.nz> wrote: > I recently re-formatted this PC and found last night that the burner > isn't seen by Nero. Prior to the re-format there were no problems > at all >

> Of course, you could have done what I did once, swapped drives > and forgot that it wasn't a burner, it could only read DVDs Thanks, but thank you no. One stuff-up at a time I think > Nero (v8) suffers from bloat & annoyances these days. So I've been reading on the forums. Many people are sticking with 7

> I would first try upgrading to the latest sub-version of the 5.5 series Upped it to 5.5.10.56 and that seems to have done the trick. At least the drive is now in the menu, will try burning some files after a night's zzzzzzzzzzzz. And am I looking forward to those

In message <001801c8eba4$40c9a5a0$89aafea9@ivp1>, Jinx <.....joecolquittKILLspam.....clear.net.nz> writes >I recently re-formatted this PC and found last night that the burner >isn't seen by Nero. Prior to the re-format there were no problems >at all > >Drive is LG GSA-4167B, with the accompanying LG DVD Writer >Solution and Nero 5.5 CDs. I used these for the previous installation Are you absolutely sure that you didn't download an upgrade? 5.5 is a very old version which didn't support huge numbers of DVD Writers. Might be worth checking the compatibility lists. {Quote hidden}> >The problem is that Nero offers only Image Recorder (CD-R/RW) >as an option for a recorder in the drop-down menu. Using this option >will save an .nrg image file to HDD, not a CD > >The drive will play anything, is in the devices list, and according to >XP it's working properly. LG doesn't have drivers as such, only a >firmware upgrade for the drive, which I feel isn't necessary > >AFAICT from Googling, XP drivers are all that's needed. I don't >recall needing to do anything special before. Nero and LG forums >don't have any enquiries about this particular selection issue > >Any ideas ? > >TIA > -- Clint Sharp

> > Nero 5.5 CDs. I used these for the previous installation > Are you absolutely sure that you didn't download an upgrade? 5.5 > is a very old version which didn't support huge numbers of DVD > Writers. Might be worth checking the compatibility lists. Pretty sure. I keep a folder for copies of downloaded zips, exes, patches etc and there's nothing Nero in it. There are trial versions of Alcohol 120 and Blindwrite in there but the drive was writing before that, straight out of the box actually AFAICT all is back to normal after the Nero upgrade, have done an audio CD and a data CD Thanks everyone

Jinx wrote: > Pretty sure. I keep a folder for copies of downloaded zips, exes, > patches etc and there's nothing Nero in it. I have such a folder myself but it's a nightmare to thrawl through, especially when I don't bother to change the filename from "nrs7.8.6.exe" :-P