Posted by JMK on 05/09/06 02:41

Yes, I'm a Luddite and yes, I'm a techno-idiot, so with that out of the
way, I have today's stupid questions from a beginning PC DVD burner:

I got a PC with Nero Express pre-bundled, but without, unfortunately,
any manual (there's a Manual option in the Menus, but it's not on the
computer for some reason). I have found one online but it doesn't
answer a couple of questions. So here we go:

This version of Nero comes with these burning choices:

D:_NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A [DVD]

and

Image Recorder [DVD}

So my first stupid question is: what is the Image Recorder, what does
it do and how does it work? It appears maybe it copies stuff to the
harddrive. But when I tried that I got a very small file (like 4KB)
that is obviously not DVD data.

My second stupid question is: If I use the actual ND-1100A burner and
select the "copy entire disc" option, it immediately goes to "Burn,"
which scares me a little bit. When I've used Nero to burn CDs, if I
copy an entire disc there is an intervening menu where I select the
source data. So I'm wondering if this is correct or if this version is
malfunctioning. I don't think I'm skilled enough to extract the
individual files I need to copy a DVD with the "DVD-Video Files" menu
option, but maybe some patient soul can walk me through what I need to
do with that option.

Thanks for bearing with someone hopelessly caught in the late 20th
century. :)

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