Monday, January 30, 2006
COPYING CDROM DISC
Nero will only let me burn a data disc image using the .iso or .nrg file formatsOK, you said that already.
Start Nero, and select the Image Recorder as the device.
From the "Recorder" menu, select the "Copy Disc" entry. A multi-tab dialog will pop up.
Enable the "On the fly" option in the "Copy Options" tab.
Go to the "Read Options" tab.
Select "User defined" in the "Fast copy settings" list.
ENABLE the "Ignore read errors", "Write defect sectors" and "Read sectors in raw mode" option.
DISABLE the "Read all subchannel data" option.
Click on the "Copy" button to start creating the image.
That should do it. Note that it can take quite some time to create the image, because of the "bad" sectors on safedisc protected CDs. The amount of time needed depends on the drive. Some drives can skip the errors in 5 seconds, some in 5 minutes, some in 5 hours, and others need a whole day.
If the image still won't work, try Alcohol. You can download a trial version, so you can test if it works. Alcohol, in contrast to Nero, is a dedicated tool for copying CDs.
Nero will only let me burn a data disc image using the .iso or .nrg file formatsOK, you said that already.
Start Nero, and select the Image Recorder as the device.
From the "Recorder" menu, select the "Copy Disc" entry. A multi-tab dialog will pop up.
Enable the "On the fly" option in the "Copy Options" tab.
Go to the "Read Options" tab.
Select "User defined" in the "Fast copy settings" list.
ENABLE the "Ignore read errors", "Write defect sectors" and "Read sectors in raw mode" option.
DISABLE the "Read all subchannel data" option.
Click on the "Copy" button to start creating the image.
That should do it. Note that it can take quite some time to create the image, because of the "bad" sectors on safedisc protected CDs. The amount of time needed depends on the drive. Some drives can skip the errors in 5 seconds, some in 5 minutes, some in 5 hours, and others need a whole day.
If the image still won't work, try Alcohol. You can download a trial version, so you can test if it works. Alcohol, in contrast to Nero, is a dedicated tool for copying CDs.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
"Safely Remove Hardware" icon is missing from the taskbar:
To bring up this dialog box when it cannot be found: Control Panels, System, Device Manager, Disk Drives (or whatever the USB device is), Properties, Policies, click the link for "Safely Remove Hardware" and the dialog box will appear.
[Windows XP]
To bring up this dialog box when it cannot be found: Control Panels, System, Device Manager, Disk Drives (or whatever the USB device is), Properties, Policies, click the link for "Safely Remove Hardware" and the dialog box will appear.
[Windows XP]
