I’m in the middle of restoring from a major hard drive failure (you can read the whole sordid story here if you’re interested) and right now I’m at the point of tweaking everything so it works properly. Unfortunately, Nero is one of the things that’s being a pest.
Basically, Nero Burning ROM will burn a disc okay, but hang up (not crash) during the Verify process at around 40%. At this time, the data it burns seems to be just fine…but we all get bad discs now and again, and I’d kinda like to know if it’s okay without having to check every single individual file. :mad:
I’m running WinXP Service Pack 2 and I’ve updated to the latest Nero version (6.6.0.16 – before that, it wasn’t working at all). One thing, I don’t have InCD installed; a few people advised against using it, but my old system never seemed to have any problem with it. (What does it do, anyway?)
InCD is a packet-writing system. Basically, it lets you use a CD more like a floppy or hard drive. There are other, better packet-writing systems that have the major advantage of not being proprietary (i.e. InCD disks can only be read by systems that have a compatible InCD program installed). I understand it also has some reliability issues, too, but since I don’t use it, I don’t know the details.
The breakdown at 40% suggests that you may be hittting a workfile size limit. You might not have sufficent space on the default program HDD or you may be hitting the 2GB limit of certain MS filesystems (e.g. FAT16 disks formatted with a 32KB cluster size, which Win95/98/ME and some non-MS programs do by default, especially on smaller partitions). Basically, you’re hitting a limit in the size of an intermediate workfile. You could use a program like Partition magic to reformat a FAT16 drive with a larger cluster size, but you’d still die at 4GB. Try increasing the size of your OS swapfile or setting your Nero to use a NTFS partition (drive) for its cache and workfiles.
(E.g. to change the cache directory you’d open Nero, the select (menubar) File -> Preferences
then click on the “Cache” tab and set the cache to a folder on the desired drive )
This kind of problem usually arises after upgrading an OS or using a utility that you were using from another OS.
Thanks for the tips. As it turned out, updating the firmware on the DVD burner turned the trick…Nero’s working like a dream now. In fact the drive has never been this fast before!
On the other hand, my computer’s ability to read Verbatim RWs has suddenly become very flaky. Which is the only brand my standalone DVD Recorder will play nice with…shit, it’s always something isn’t it?? :rolleyes:
I’m currently running on a FAT32 partition but plan to convert it to NTFS eventually, once all these little gremlins are worked out…