Vista will not burn ISO to DVD

ive tried Roxio 6 and Nero 6 Reloaded and each time i get an error
on nero it says illegal disc and failed burning before it ever really
started and Roxio does the same. is it the DVD burner? because i could always
try a different computer? or should i just extract the ISO and install it
that way?

Go ahead and use a different computer. MS is recommending a slow burn
speed.

"Evan" <Evan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ive tried Roxio 6 and Nero 6 Reloaded and each time i get an error
> on nero it says illegal disc and failed burning before it ever really
> started and Roxio does the same. is it the DVD burner? because i could
> always
> try a different computer? or should i just extract the ISO and install it
> that way?

The Backup feature in Vista looks (to me) suspiciously like the one in
Windows Live OneCare (for XP), and that program's backup feature doesn't get
along well with certain parts of Roxio, Nero, and other CD-burning apps, and
they don't get along well with it. Try installing them again, but Roxio
without DLA and Nero without InCD, if you can turn them off. If that
doesn't fix it, as a last resort you could try downloading IsoBuster from
Smart Projects (to extract the ISO file to a folder) and then browse
Download.com for something that will burn files to a CD/DVD.

"Evan" <Evan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:31D21BB8-9682-4D6B-AE3F-00A65ED260BC@microsoft.com...
> ive tried Roxio 6 and Nero 6 Reloaded and each time i get an error
> on nero it says illegal disc and failed burning before it ever really
> started and Roxio does the same. is it the DVD burner? because i could
> always
> try a different computer? or should i just extract the ISO and install it
> that way?

Evan--

An "Illegal disc" error often means that the burning software doesn't
recognize it. There is a significant percentage of times when having Roxio
6 and newer and Nero 6 and newer or Nero 6 and newer and any other burning
software will conflict. I'd leave only Nero on the box.


1) Make sure that you have the correct download and it is a .iso and use
the ISO burining tab on Nero.

2) I agree--try reburning at slow speed and close the session.

3) Try this additional step:

Get to Dev Manager by typing devmgmt.msc in run/win key + pause break or Rt.
click My Computer>Prop>hardware tab>Device Manager if you like 5 steps
instead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set to
DMO change to PMI:

a.. Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
a.. Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller
a.. Click Advanced Settings
a.. Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)
a.. Click OK
a.. Reboot your System

Good luck,

CH





"Evan" <Evan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:31D21BB8-9682-4D6B-AE3F-00A65ED260BC@microsoft.com...
> ive tried Roxio 6 and Nero 6 Reloaded and each time i get an error
> on nero it says illegal disc and failed burning before it ever really
> started and Roxio does the same. is it the DVD burner? because i could
> always
> try a different computer? or should i just extract the ISO and install it
> that way?

While the Vista back up feature does look like the One in Windows One Care
it isn't the one in Windows One Care. One care has file backup that is
similar to Vista but doens't support all of the media backups that Vista
does. In addition Vista has Complete PC and One care doesnt.

The One Care team's observation that about 65% of Windows users don't back
up probably underestimates it. It's more like 80%. People are getting
lazier and lazier with each generation.

Reading is also anathma in my country. Most people who use Windows XP or
Vista have never given Help a glance in XP or Vista or Office nor looked
at http://support.microsoft.com and google is a big chore for many of them.
They won't be doing so in the future.

Most of the poeople who jump at downloading Vista like some software
aphrodisiac never read the release notes for Vista or anything else MSFT
writes them for. Maybe that's why the writers on MSFT's Vista team has
writers cramp when it comes to documenting Vista features.

The so-called Vista Product Manual looks like some bureaucratic government
thing they used to hand out at elementary schools back in the day.

This thing is as superficial as CNN is when they syncophantically report the
news. "Good week for Bush not relaizing visiting the Green Zone in Iraq is
like going to Olive Garden and thinking you were in Italy. It's a
cheerleading document superficial "Vista is good but we ain't gonna tell ya
how and why" piece of drivel, not a computer science oriented information
document. It mentions but does not explain how System Restore doesn't
currently work and Win RE works in Vista in one paragraph.

Windows Vista Beta 2 Product Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

CH



"NeoDude0" <alanbunting@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:19646988-F13C-4288-93D4-B8F50C6B6259@microsoft.com...
> The Backup feature in Vista looks (to me) suspiciously like the one in
> Windows Live OneCare (for XP), and that program's backup feature doesn't
> get along well with certain parts of Roxio, Nero, and other CD-burning
> apps, and they don't get along well with it. Try installing them again,
> but Roxio without DLA and Nero without InCD, if you can turn them off. If
> that doesn't fix it, as a last resort you could try downloading IsoBuster
> from Smart Projects (to extract the ISO file to a folder) and then browse
> Download.com for something that will burn files to a CD/DVD.
>
> "Evan" <Evan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:31D21BB8-9682-4D6B-AE3F-00A65ED260BC@microsoft.com...
>> ive tried Roxio 6 and Nero 6 Reloaded and each time i get an error
>> on nero it says illegal disc and failed burning before it ever really
>> started and Roxio does the same. is it the DVD burner? because i could
>> always
>> try a different computer? or should i just extract the ISO and install it
>> that way?
>