DVD Burning Software

[C R C]

Hello.

I bought a new LG Double Layer DVD Burner with Lightscribe. Vista does not
allow me to install the software bundle (Nero 6 and Cyberlink Power DVD)
that came with the drive. (FYI: I have disabled the UAC in my Vista). I
checked Nero, they don't have an update for Vista. None at Cyberlink
either.

I want to be able to burn DVD's and CD's with Vista. There are five Fedora
6 .ISO CD image files waiting to be burned.

Does anyone know if Vista Ultimate can burn .iso image files to CD without
installing any other DVD/CD burning software?

 

[Stuart Forshaw]

Hi

Nero 6 will not work with Vista, you need the latest Nero 7 v7.8.0.5
available as an update from their website.

Windows Vista has CD/DVD burning built in but will not burn ISO, you will
either need Nero 7 or a standalone IMG Burn package of which some are free,
personally we use Nero 7 so I am unable to advise on others.

I hope this helps.

Regards
Stuart

 

[NoStop]

Hi

Nero 6 will not work with Vista, you need the latest Nero 7 v7.8.0.5
available as an update from their website.

Does Nero 6 have to be installed before one can upgrade to Nero 7? If not,
that's fine. Otherwise, it looks like a catch-22 situation.

Windows Vista has CD/DVD burning built in but will not burn ISO, you will
either need Nero 7 or a standalone IMG Burn package of which some are
free, personally we use Nero 7 so I am unable to advise on others.

One of the most fundamental tasks when it comes to burning CD/DVD is to be
able to burn from an ISO. How did Microsoft manage to miss this one? Why
does Microsoft continue to include half-baked software with its operating
system?

I hope this helps.

Thanks for any input. Many Windows users are interested in exploring
GNU/Linux and those distros usually come as free downloadable ISO files.

Cheers.

Regards
Stuart

--
The "Wow" starts now.

"No sane person wants Vista, so Microsoft is making sure they have no
choice."
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html

 

[ray]

Hello.

I bought a new LG Double Layer DVD Burner with Lightscribe. Vista does not
allow me to install the software bundle (Nero 6 and Cyberlink Power DVD)
that came with the drive. (FYI: I have disabled the UAC in my Vista). I
checked Nero, they don't have an update for Vista. None at Cyberlink
either.

I want to be able to burn DVD's and CD's with Vista. There are five Fedora
6 .ISO CD image files waiting to be burned.

Does anyone know if Vista Ultimate can burn .iso image files to CD without
installing any other DVD/CD burning software?

One option would be to boot something like a knoppix Live CD with the
'toram' option - this loads the OS and utilities to ram leaving the dvd
unit freed up.

 

[Adam Albright]

Hi

Nero 6 will not work with Vista, you need the latest Nero 7 v7.8.0.5
available as an update from their website.

Windows Vista has CD/DVD burning built in but will not burn ISO, you will
either need Nero 7 or a standalone IMG Burn package of which some are free,
personally we use Nero 7 so I am unable to advise on others.

I hope this helps.

Regards
Stuart

Just so you have more choices, Easy CD Creator 9 (Roxio) also works
well with Vista, except for their drag to disk applet, which is easly
defeated with a patch. It only causes a nag screen anyway, no real
harm and all due to some KB patch that fixes other software, but
partially breaks Easy 9 in this minor regard. Go figure.

 

[Test Man]

No, you can just obtain Nero 7. Note that you will need to BUY this as this
is not an update, it's a whole new version.

Noted your comments about ISO burning, true, although there are enough
freeware alternatives to not really make it an issue (ImgBurn 2.3.0.0 at
http://www.imgburn.com).

 

[C C]

Does Nero 6 have to be installed before one can upgrade to Nero 7? If not,
that's fine. Otherwise, it looks like a catch-22 situation.

One of the most fundamental tasks when it comes to burning CD/DVD is to be
able to burn from an ISO. How did Microsoft manage to miss this one? Why
does Microsoft continue to include half-baked software with its operating
system?

Thanks for any input. Many Windows users are interested in exploring
GNU/Linux and those distros usually come as free downloadable ISO files.

I'm one of them. At work, we are a Microsoft shop when it comes
to workstations, Mail Exchange, Browsing, etc. But our business apps
are running on Mid-Range systems. Lately, we migrated our database
to Oracle 10-g in a RAC environment. The servers are are running on
RHL Enterprise (Red Hat Linux).

I home-built a new system with a Dual Core CPU, 2GB DDR2 mem
for Vista Ultimate I'm trying out. New workstations and Laptops that
we buy at work now come with Vista so I have to learn the new Vista
OS.

On the other hand, I want to learn Linux so I downloaded the ISO
images from Fedora to install in another system I'm going to build - just
to familiarize myself with Linux.

 

[Andrea]

Stuart Forshaw pisze:

Hi

Nero 6 will not work with Vista, you need the latest Nero 7 v7.8.0.5
available as an update from their website.

Windows Vista has CD/DVD burning built in but will not burn ISO, you
will either need Nero 7 or a standalone IMG Burn package of which some
are free, personally we use Nero 7 so I am unable to advise on others.

Free ImgBurn burns IOS exceptionally well under Vista.

 

[PTravel]

Hi

Nero 6 will not work with Vista, you need the latest Nero 7 v7.8.0.5
available as an update from their website.

Nero 6 does work under Vista (I use it regularly). Some of the support
programs don't, e.g. Nero Express, won't work. However, Nero Burning ROM
(the primary burning software) works just fine.

Windows Vista has CD/DVD burning built in but will not burn ISO, you will
either need Nero 7 or a standalone IMG Burn package of which some are
free, personally we use Nero 7 so I am unable to advise on others.

Nero Burning ROM 6 will, of course, handle ISO images and works fine under
Vista.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

 However, Nero Burning ROM 
(the primary burning software) works just fine.

Any tricks to installing it?

 

[ptravel]

Any tricks to installing it?

As I recall (it's been a couple of weeks), just the usual -- Run the
setup program as Administrator and XP Pro SP2 compatible. Once it's
been installed, set the executable to XP Pro SP2/Run as Administrator
mode. I don't know if it's necessary, but I do it as a matter of
course when I'm installing software that isn't expressly Vista-
compatible.

 

[Isaac Hunt]

As I recall (it's been a couple of weeks), just the usual -- Run the
setup program as Administrator and XP Pro SP2 compatible. Once it's
been installed, set the executable to XP Pro SP2/Run as Administrator
mode. I don't know if it's necessary, but I do it as a matter of
course when I'm installing software that isn't expressly Vista-
compatible.

Nero is Vista compatible.
Just run the installer, no need to run in compatibility mode.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

Run the setup program as Administrator and XP Pro SP2 compatible

Can you/someone remind me -- I'm used to Run as Administrator (RIght
Mouse Click and select) but not with combining the two.

Do you right mouse click on the installer, select properties and set
compatibility mode there and then having done that do the R as Admin?

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

We are talking about Nero 6 here, not Nero 7+

Are you saying that Nero 6 is VISTA compatible after all?

 

[Chad Harris]

Hugh hey--

I know that the latest versions of Nero have had adjustments to make it more
widely Vista compatible, but I have to say every time this comes up, that I
have been able to successfully use Nero 6+ (I update it whenever they make
them available) with all of the builds of Vista up through the one they are
selling now (RTM).

The only widespread problem I've seen isn't endemic to Vista--it's the
familiar upper filter/lower filter reg values that sometimes get in the way
but can be deleted to fix the problem they cause. This also is not
relegated to Nero--it can impact any burning software, including the native
software included by MSFT in XP and now Vista.

If you haven't tried Nero 6 and have it, give it a shot on Vista and if you
run into any problems, please post them up.

CH

 

[Isaac Hunt]

We are talking about Nero 6 here, not Nero 7+

Are you saying that Nero 6 is VISTA compatible after all?

It wasn't clear as you don't quote relevant text in your posts.

 

[ptravel]

Can you/someone remind me -- I'm used to Run as Administrator (RIght
Mouse Click and select) but not with combining the two.

Do you right mouse click on the installer, select properties and set
compatibility mode there and then having done that do the R as Admin?

Yep -- that's how I do it. I'll also set the installed executable to
"compatibility mode" if there's a concern. I gave myself
administrator rights, so I only rarely have to either run a program in
Run as Administrator or set the properties to Run as Administrator.

 

[Guest]

You got dudded; it is up to Nero 7. Take your software back and demand up to
date stuff. Same with Power DVD; it is up to 7 too, although there is still a
prob with Power DVD.
I am using Nero 6.6; worksgreat,

 

[C R C]

I suspect that Nero will not release a Vista update for 6.6.
They are forcing users to buy Nero 7.

 

[Adam Albright]

You got dudded; it is up to Nero 7. Take your software back and demand up to
date stuff.

Surely you jest.