I just got a new Samsung SH-223L Sata burner as my old Plextor 716 drive crapped out. The Plextor was an IDE drive and I think going to Sata may be causing a problem.
Quick background on the system in question:
It's 6 years old
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8INXP with the E7205 Granite Bay chipset. This board was one of the first offered that had Sata on it in the form of a Silicon Image chip that provides 2 Sata ports (Sata was not yet integrated into any of Intel's chipsets at this point)
I have Nero 5.5 retail installed
Windows XP Pro sp3
I took out the Plextor and installed the Samsung, but now when I launch Nero it does not see the Samsung as being dvd capable. It only gives the option for cd, as dvd is grayed out and not available. The Plextor, IDE, did not have this problem as both cd and dvd were available and functional. I'm sure the Samsung being Sata is the issue and I'm guessing that because this version of Nero is so old it probably has issues with Optical Sata drives.
The Sata ports work as I have my hard drive connected to the other port and I was able to burn a dvd on the new Samsung from within Adobe Photoshop Album without a problem.
What are some good alternatives to my ancient Nero 5.5 as far as basic burning software goes, both free and retail?
Is there a way to get functionality from the Nero 5.5? There are no patches available from Nero to correct this. Maybe from Microsoft?
Quick background on the system in question:
It's 6 years old
The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8INXP with the E7205 Granite Bay chipset. This board was one of the first offered that had Sata on it in the form of a Silicon Image chip that provides 2 Sata ports (Sata was not yet integrated into any of Intel's chipsets at this point)
I have Nero 5.5 retail installed
Windows XP Pro sp3
I took out the Plextor and installed the Samsung, but now when I launch Nero it does not see the Samsung as being dvd capable. It only gives the option for cd, as dvd is grayed out and not available. The Plextor, IDE, did not have this problem as both cd and dvd were available and functional. I'm sure the Samsung being Sata is the issue and I'm guessing that because this version of Nero is so old it probably has issues with Optical Sata drives.
The Sata ports work as I have my hard drive connected to the other port and I was able to burn a dvd on the new Samsung from within Adobe Photoshop Album without a problem.
What are some good alternatives to my ancient Nero 5.5 as far as basic burning software goes, both free and retail?
Is there a way to get functionality from the Nero 5.5? There are no patches available from Nero to correct this. Maybe from Microsoft?
