Re: Dumbest Question of the Week (not much about audio)

Mike Rivers wrote:
This one is so dumb I didn't even want to put it in the subject
header.

My workaday computer's disk drive was getting funky (slow, errors now
and then) so I decided that since today it snowed for the first time
this season, it would be a good day to fuss with the computer. I've
never done anything to the insides of a computer that didn't take me
all day to get back to at least where I started, and this day was no
different.

I used Maxtor's "clone my disk" utility to copy my old disk to the new
disk, and as I suspected, a few things didn't come through. There were
some Windows system files missing. I ran SFC, and after that it
stopped complaining. Everything seems to be OK except that some
graphics in Firefox are screwy. But that isn't what I came here to
talk to you about today.

I figured that since I was going to open up the computer, it was high
time I had a DVD writer here, so I picked one up and, after the hard
drive settled down, installed it, replacing the read-only CD drive
that was in there (I'm not that far behind - the other drive is a CD
writer). The DVD writer came with a scaled down Nero 7 disk, but I
balked at installing it. I have Nero 5 now, I like it (of course it
doesn't recognize the new drive at all), and this new version says I
have to uninstall my old version of Nero - I can't have both.

So here's the dumb question. First the part that makes it harder to
answer. This computer is running Windows 2000, not XP, not Linux, not
Leopold or whatever the new Mac OS is called.

and now . . . . . .

How do I write files to a DVD? Is there a simple, non-bloated utility
that will do it? I did the requisite Google search and didn't turn up
any attractive prospects, just the usual suspects.

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but I remember back in the day of Nero 5 the versions that shipped with CD writers would only work with those make of cd writer. I.e. if you have a version of Nero 5 that came with a Creative Labs CD writer, it wont recognise a Panasonic DVDRW in the drop down menu at the top for example.

I think they might have done the same with Nero 6, not sure about 7.

Anyway, your best bet if you don't want to mess around with any freeware is just to install the provided version of Nero 7, if you're just burning data and audio you won't need anything more.

Also, do yourself a favour and replace that maxtor disk. Sounds like it's on the way out and maxtor make notoriously terrible drives anyway. Also install XP god-damn it, or linux, or just anything else! :)

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