nero 5.5.8

[Dadsgrice]

When I put nero 5.5.8 on with an orginal serial it goes ok but when I come to run it freeezes my system 5.576 works great but can't burn dvds to play in most standalones must be a conflict has anyone had sim experiences

[heretic422]

Just bought the Philips DVD+RW 1208. Came with Nero 5.5.5.6 - doesn't have the Video DVD capability. Downloaded 5.5.8.0 and installed. When I launch Nero, it hangs at "Scanning SCSI/IDE Bus" then craps the machine.

Called Philips. They said that they don't offer Nero in the box with their products, (then how did I get it???) and they only offer Roxio Platinum. Does that make sense to you?? I was told that the reseller may have an agreement with Nero to include it in products they sell. That's fine but then where's my copy of Roxio that should have come in the box? No answer...

Bought the drive at Best Buy. Also, when I try to erase a RW DVD dic, the whole machine hangs. Ripped through the registry and removed all references to aHead or Nero, reinstalled and still no dice. Thinking about re-installing OS and only installing drive with Nero and seeing of that helps.

Too much trouble!!!

[JustLookingQQ]

I was just reading a magazine article about DVD drives. And I'm not sure that a DVD-RAM drive and DVD-R/RW are complety compatible for a Video-DVD. But for your problem I have no idea. I would try uninstalling
and reinstalling the drive first before wiping the OS. Maybe see if there is a new driver.

[sashka]

Uninstall your nero complitly and then install nero 5.5.8 (clean install).
It should solve your problem.
Regards.
Alex.

[flashram]

I downloaded Nero 5.5.8.0, did the install, when asked I picked the upgrade path, and low and behold running in demo mode. And on top of that, lost access to my DVD Burner Pioneer A03. I have, after lots of trouble got it running now, but still no access to DVD Burner anyone got any suggestions.

[Shatian]

I had problems very similar to this myself recently. I have a HP 100i drive, and for a while there it worked ok with 5.5.6.4. If I tried to upgrade to any version higher it wouldn't find the drive correctly. About a month ago, I updated the firmware on the drive, and it wouldn't write to the drive no matter what version I used. Nero would lock up so hard that the only way to exit was to turn the power off, this was in Windows 2000!

Last week, I re-installed windows 2000 to see if I had some file issues. I installed 5.5.8.0... Still no luck. When Nero went to write to the drive, hard lock. I spent two days trying everything I could think of: Downgrading Nero, downgrading firmware, upgrading Nero, upgrading firmware...No luck.

Sorry this is taking so long, but after reading around on Nero's help tool ( much as it is, being as old as it is) I found out what my problem is, I had turned on DMA access for the DVD drive, and apparently Nero doesn't like that for some reason. I changed it back to PIO mode and now it works fine. Maybe you can check that and see if that's the problem? If you have 95/98/ME take out the dma check on the drive, on 2000 go to the ide interface and change it to pio mode only. Worked for me!

[SLK001]

There is a problem with the installation program for NERO 5.5.8.0. To get it installed (so that it recognizes all drives) uninstall COMPLETELY any previous version of NERO. Then run the 5.5.8.0 installation program normally (you will have to re-enter your serial number). Many people have reported this problem... the UNINSTALL / REINSTALL technique has worked for them (and me - I had the "hang" at IDE/SCSI SCAN and it wouldn't recognize my DVD-R drive).

[JustLookingQQ]

Does anyone have any ideas why nero 5.5.8 keeps telling me unwriteable media and using the exct same setup under 5.5.72 it will burn

[flashram]

And that advice worked, thanks. Still seems pathetic they way they release things that cause so much stuffing around.

[Joe018]

i've been able to burn data files with nero 5.5.8 but im not able to burn dvd-video. when i attempt to write it aborts with the message

DVD-Video Files Reallocation failed

anyone have an idea whats up? that or what other software would i need to use in order to burn a dvd video?

thanks

-J

[ozzhead42]

Try PrimoDVD, work everytime for me. I never got nero to burn a dvd thats works. If u cant find primo [which is hard to find, took me 2 hrs] e-mail and i send it to you somehow.

ozzhead42@yahoo.com

[rjsmyth]

And that advice worked, thanks. Still seems pathetic they way they release things that cause so much stuffing around.

Does no one find it worrying how many new releases of this and other software there are? We are the guinea pigs here. I spent several hours trying to work out why 5.5.8.0 would not work until I discovered the unistall/install method.

[SLK001]

Hey, writing software that covers every possible combination is, to say the least, difficult. At least NERO fixes the bugs (and makes useful upgrades) as soon as they are found. I make DVDs with the DVD-Video function all the time (never had a failure). What really disturbs me, is software companies that don't fix bugs or offer work-arounds to the garbage that they are putting on the market. Sonic DVDit comes to mind here.

[Stelios]

No problem here upgrading to 5.5.8 Everything works fine.