Mad Dog & Nero

[Howard Brazee]

This USB drive plugs into my computers and is useable as a CD/DVD drive as is.
At my home, I have 3 computers with Windows XP and at work I have a computer
with Windows 2000 (but not all privileges).

I'd like to be able to use it without installing Nero with all of these
computers. My primary need is to create backups that can be read by any
computer with a DvD drive. My secondary need is to be able to carry the drive
between work and home and back-up files from one to the other.

As long as I have Nero, I will experiment with its programs. But I haven't
been able to find a tutorial which says which Nero program is best suitable for
which need. My disk has:
Nero Suite
Nero OEM
NeroVision Express 2
Nero Media Player
InCD4
EasyWrite Reader
Contents + Templates

My guess is that InCD is the program I want, but your instructions say to
install the Nero Suite. They don't say what I'm getting.


I haven't been able to write to DvDs without installing Nero. This bothers me
a lot. I bought the product to do back-ups from multiple computers.

What is the minimal installation I need to do back-ups? How much does it cost
to be able to make this installation at multiple computers of mine?

I ran Nero and was able to create a DvD with a My Pictures on it. On my other
computer, I saw those pictures looking like shortcuts, and was able to copy
them. I think it copied them from the disk, but it may have copied them from
the original computer, at least copying them took much longer than burning the
DvD. I took the MadDog to work and tried to read that DvD and failed.\

Where can I find instructions and/or tutorials about what I should be doing?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You have an OEM version of NERO. It will install Nero OEM be default. This
is really Nero Express. It is very limited and gives you a Wizard based
burning evironment. Head over to www.nero.com and you can locate the
doucmentation.

InCD is usually installed separate.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

InCD is the packet writing software produced by the Nero people (Ahead
Software). It makes a suitably formatted CD-RW or DVD-RW act like a giant
floppy. (Sort of.) I'd hesitate to call it a backup utility. I would not
count on being able to read an optical disk written with it on a machine
that does not have InCD installed.

I believe that the installer for it won't run unless Nero is installed.

I have the full version of Nero 6.x installed. I don't use INCD, though,
because the last time I tried it, it was very crash prone on my system (XP
Home SP2).

I don't know about OEM versions, but the full version of Nero includes a
backup utility. I haven't tried it, though. For full backups, I've used
Norton Ghost 2003. (I have never gotten it to write directly to CD or DVD
reliably, though. I end up writing the Ghost files to a separate partition
or an external hard drive, and then burning the 2 GB chunks to DVD.)

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Colon Terminus]

You really need Nero Suite on each of the computers that'll be burning
CD/DVDs.
You should have purchased an external hard drive. Costs about the same and
is much better suited for your intended use.

This USB drive plugs into my computers and is useable as a CD/DVD drive as is.
At my home, I have 3 computers with Windows XP and at work I have a computer
with Windows 2000 (but not all privileges).

I'd like to be able to use it without installing Nero with all of these
computers. My primary need is to create backups that can be read by any
computer with a DvD drive. My secondary need is to be able to carry the drive
between work and home and back-up files from one to the other.

As long as I have Nero, I will experiment with its programs. But I haven't
been able to find a tutorial which says which Nero program is best suitable for
which need. My disk has:
Nero Suite
Nero OEM
NeroVision Express 2
Nero Media Player
InCD4
EasyWrite Reader
Contents + Templates

My guess is that InCD is the program I want, but your instructions say to
install the Nero Suite. They don't say what I'm getting.


I haven't been able to write to DvDs without installing Nero. This bothers me
a lot. I bought the product to do back-ups from multiple computers.

What is the minimal installation I need to do back-ups? How much does it cost
to be able to make this installation at multiple computers of mine?

I ran Nero and was able to create a DvD with a My Pictures on it. On my other
computer, I saw those pictures looking like shortcuts, and was able to copy
them. I think it copied them from the disk, but it may have copied them from
the original computer, at least copying them took much longer than burning the
DvD. I took the MadDog to work and tried to read that DvD and failed.\

Where can I find instructions and/or tutorials about what I should be

doing?

 

[Howard Brazee]

You really need Nero Suite on each of the computers that'll be burning
CD/DVDs.
You should have purchased an external hard drive. Costs about the same and
is much better suited for your intended use.

The difference is, I want to have backups that any computer with a DvD reader
can read - even if my drive isn't available.