Re: #@%&! But I HATE Fooling With Computers (Windows/Nero Question)

Mike Rivers wrote:
I have a new laptop computer here that I'm trying to beat into
submission. For those of you who were following the discussion of about
a month ago, it's a Sony Vaio FJ270/B. I bought it sort of on impluse
because it was on sale for $900 at Office Depot over the weekend. It's
a lot of computer for the money - 1.8 GHz Centrino, 1GB RAM, 100 GB
5400 RPM disk drive, CD/DVD burner, Firewire, USB, decent looking
screen, though it's a "wide screen" which means that it has less screen
height than my old laptop even though both are nominally 14".

Anyway, I've been trying to find my way around it. I was looking for
something like Nero installed on it so that I could make audio CDs and
split a long file into indexed tracks. There's Sony's Sonic Stage,
which is a mess, and whatever facilities Windows has, which are pretty
crude.

So I insalled my copy of Nero Version 5 on it and tried to burn a CD.
It doesn't see the CD drive as a real recorder, though, it appears. In
the "Chose Recorder" dialog box, it lists only one device:

Image Recorder, and under the "adapter" column, it says "Virtual
Device"

When I try to burn a CD, it asks me where to save the image file (which
the same program installed on other computers never asked). If I tell
it to save it, it doesn't burn anything on CD (but it does save a
file). If open that file in Nero and tell it to burn a CD, it again
asks me where to save the image file, and round and round we go.

What's going on here? It must be a Windows thing that's lying to Nero.
This is running Windows XP Home SP2. It's my first SP2. Maybe that
needs to be "fixed."

Oh, and I still have the old networking problem, in a slightly
different form with the new computer. $100 to anyone who will come over
here and fix it. I've had all the virtual advice I can stand.

Mike,

Image Recorder is Nero's way of writing images to the hard drive, you
switch to it when you need to copy a CD to the hard drive, not another
CD. The actual physical drive in your computer is probably not one
that is in Nero 5's database. Get the upgrade to the most recent
version and it will most likely be fine. This same thing happened to
me when I had bought the (then brand spanking new) 48X Plextor CD
recorder for one of my machines. Updating solved this issue.

Also...I hate to tell you this, but that same money buys you that same
computer from Dell, but with a Dual core chip and a bigger
display...maybe you can still take it back.

What's the networking issue?

Peace,
--Vas

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