Re: Nero spoils CD-DVD-R/WE on Vista x64 SP2

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"Daddy Tadpole" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:91941CB5-C8EA-4E09-A790-A5C8E4295BE4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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"Daddy Tadpole" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:18C1638B-7BA8-45D1-A927-2501F8F4344E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There are hundreds of free burners available.

The ones you can pay for are always needing updates and mess your computer up.

None of them work all the time with all drives and all branded recordable disks.

Recordable disks have an unpredictable lifetime.

CD-R has been around for many years.

Why can't we have a **RELIABLE** way of burning disks??????

Finally, what is M$ doing about it?

Regards

What does Microsoft have to do with CD/DVD burner manufacturers and the companies that write the software for them? Linking Microsoft to them is a bit of a stretch don't you think.
Writing to disks has been a key function of operating systems since computers had disks. Magneto-optical disks used to be quite common for backing up data, and these were (and still are) recognised too.

So I don't see why an OS should not be able to handle natively any CD or DVD drive that meets agreed specifications. Blank disks also need specifications understandable by end users. There are arguments about the bundling of IE and other software, but these should not apply to basic hardware.

Regards

The OP said that Nero screwed up his CD/DVD burner. I experienced that when I installed Adobe Photo Elements. It absolutely hosed my CD/DVD. To get it back, I had to restore the registry to a time previous to the Adobe install, remove the CD/DVD burner from the Device Manager along with ALL software relating to the CD/DVD burner that I could find. Adobe supplied me with a listing of the DLL's installed with the Elements package as did the manufacturer of burner software that I usually used.

I physically removed the CD/DVD burner from the computer and rebooted. I then checked the Device Manager to make sure that I had gotten rid of all traces of the burner. I then powered down and re-installed the burner. The PnP immediately picked up the burner and installed it. It would burn perfectly from using the Vista burning engine but after installing the software that came with the burner, a DLL file was reported as missing. I eventually found the file and instructions on how to get it installed properly and after that everything worked properly and continues to do so.

Updated versions of my burning software and Photo Elements software installed properly and caused no further problems.

I don't see how an operating system can protect itself from a bad install of any program short of saving an image of your complete operating system before allowing an install.


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