Nero 6.6 "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD" missing

[unapproved]

In the Nero 6 Ultra Edition Quickstart Guide, page 24E, Section 4.1, the picture shows an entry for "Format/Prepare Rewritable CD" and one for "Format/Prepare Rewritable DVD".

My copy of the program doesn't show these.

(I emailed the Nero people, but do these vendors ever respond?)

Has anyone seen this failure? Should I give up on this product?

Regards,
Bob

 

[Continuity27]

Are you just looking to Erase/Format rewritable media?

If so then the option is located under "Recorder" and then "Erase Rewritable Disc"

 

[unapproved]

I'm pretty sure I mean more than erase. I gather "quick erase" means delete file entries, and full erase means overwrite file data.

I don't know specifically what "format" means for a DVD. On hard disks, it used to mean to write timing tracks, sector flags, and whatever else the drive needed to find data. Presumably it means something analogous for DVDs.

Anyhow, I cannot find a "format" operation in my copy of Nero. I did find "Erase" in the "Recorder" menu in "Nero Burning ROM", but I'm not happy about having to hunt for simple operations. Who designs this stuff? :disgust:

 

[DaveSimmons]

"format" would be preparing a disc for some packet-writing drag-n-drop support, at least it's that way for CD-RW.

Check Nero help for "drag drop" and "packet writing" I can't look it up since I haven't gotten around to upgrading from Express.

 

[unapproved]

Turns out I needed to install InCD.

The Nero documentation mentions InCD, but does not explain its role in life.
And of course, at run time, the program didn't say anything about needing InCD.

Don't these people know what "User Friendly" means? Tsk.

Anyhow, my StartSmart has nice "Format" entries now.

 

[WildHorse]

Double post deleted. Oops.

 

[WildHorse]

I'd appreciate some help here too.

What is InCD? What does it do?

I want to burn an ISO image of the partition having the operating system & applications to a DVD.
I used a trial version of Acronis True Image 8 to make the ".tib" image file.

But Nero 6 doesn't see that .tib image file in order to burn it. How can I get it to burn?

Another question: If I just put "bootimg.bin' on that same DVD will it then be bootable? The "bootimg.bin' would be a separate file from the ISO image file. Or, does the bootimg.bin have to be inside the ISO image file to nake the DVD bootable?

 

[Continuity27]

Originally posted by: scott
I'd appreciate some help here too.

What is InCD? What does it do?

I want to burn an ISO image of the partition having the operating system & applications to a DVD.
I used a trial version of Acronis True Image 8 to make the ".tib" image file.

But Nero 6 doesn't see that .tib image file in order to burn it. How can I get it to burn?

Another question: If I just put "bootimg.bin' on that same DVD will it then be bootable? The "bootimg.bin' would be a separate file from the ISO image file. Or, does the bootimg.bin have to be inside the ISO image file to nake the DVD bootable?

InCD is packet writing, so it seems like the CD/DVD is a folder, and it dynamically writes as you drag files into it.. I don't use it.

The Acronis True Image .tib file is meant to stay as a file, not be deployed onto a DVD in any other form. What you'd typically do is burn a DVD with the whatever.tib file on it, and when you need it, boot from the Acronis True Image boot CD (if you're not restoring from within Windows), and point the program to the DVD when it asks for an image to restore.

What is bootimg.bin? If you burn it as a file, no, the DVD will not be bootable. There is a special boot sector of CDs/DVDs that should contain the bootable image, not the generic file portion. In Nero, if you tell it to make a bootable CD/DVD, it will have an extra "Boot" tab with a dialog asking you where the bootable image is, that's where you would say bootimg.bin (if that is indeed your bootable image).

 

[WildHorse]

Continuity27

Thank you for your help.

Where you say:

"What you'd typically do is burn a DVD with the whatever.tib file on it, ..."

well the Nero 6 (it's Nero Express) doesn't "SEE" files with the extension ".tib", so you can't select a ".tib" file for burning.

Is the problem that I should've bought some other version of Nero that will allow you to select a ".tib" file for burning? Or, do you use some different program do do your actual burning?

Again, thank you for your helpful comments above.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Nero Express sees TLB files just fine for me -- when you go to the Add dialog are you navigating to the folder where you wrote the Acronis tlb? Are you changing the view to "details"?

It might be a Windows Explorer issue, if your Windows thinks they are system files and you've set / left folder options to hide system files from view. Make sure you can see the TLB files in Windows Explorer then try again in Nero Express.

 

[Continuity27]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Nero Express sees TLB files just fine for me -- when you go to the Add dialog are you navigating to the folder where you wrote the Acronis tlb? Are you changing the view to "details"?

It might be a Windows Explorer issue, if your Windows thinks they are system files and you've set / left folder options to hide system files from view. Make sure you can see the TLB files in Windows Explorer then try again in Nero Express.

Not to nitpick but its .TIB, stands for true image backup.

 

[DaveSimmons]

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