Windows 7: Nero 9

Hi,

I was wondering what peeople think of Nero 9 I am looking at maybe getting it, is it any good? Or is there better ones out there



Cheers,

Wizkid

I'm not sure but I think there might be some computability issues with Nero, what sort of things were you looking at doing with it?

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Just the normal really buring data disk and dvds. Does the latest verison of Nero 9 include burining rom? Are there compatabilty issues between vista or windows 7?

yes, i have nero 9 under windows 7. i've only used to burn a couple iso discs, and it worked fine. it's pretty bloated software in my opinion, but yeah burning rom is included.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I saw Nero 9 on ebay the other day, the retail verison for £22 pound does this sound ok? or is it always best to buy from a shop?

When I upgraded to Windows 7, I also purchased Nero 9.
The first thing I tried was to do a back up with Nero 9 to a spare hard drive. It froze each time I tried it. It froze in a different place and at a different time, but it always froze. I had Nero 7 and XP prior to this and it never failed. Since it's impossible to contact Microsoft, I contacted Nero.
They've been trying to figure it out for a week. That's my experience.

I've never really been a big fan of Nero or Roxio as they are often very bloated applications when most times you need a simple cd burner application.

I've since moved over to using imgburn. It's free and it works great.

I used to use cdburnerXP...but it tends to max out my CPU for no good reason when I burn disks. I found this being discussed on the CDburnerXP forums...but it wasn't worth fixing as ImgBurn met my needs.

I just recently purchased Nero9 and saved 50% on it using a method found here:

Digital Afterthought

I got Nero BackItUp & Burn for free too...

I have had NO problems running Nero9 on Windows 7

I would highly recommend it as it is very stable, reliable, and offers many additional plug-ins like Nero Blu-Ray authoring which allows you to edit and create Blu-Ray Movies and DVDs with 2D or 3D menus

Sure you could go freeware but you wont get as many updates or support as you would from Nero

Hi there
I'm still using Nero 7 but only for creating (Viurtual) Audio CD's which I then can burn to Minidiscs (yes I'm still using those).

I mount the Virtual CD with Alcohol 52% Free edition -- it can handle the .NRG nero format. The MD transfer software then burns to MD. Ultra ISO doesn't like mounted Audio .NRG files.

I only use Nero as it can create Audio CD's directly from my FLAC files and write to a "Virtual Audio image file" -- that's ALL I use it for --everything else is just bloat I'm afraid.

If you just want burning / ripping DVD software there's a lot of better options out there -- if I could find a decent "Create Virtual Audio CD images" from FLAC files I'd dump Nero in an instant.

For "Cloning" DVD's (even Blu Ray) Img Burn works fine on Windows 7 even X-64.

Cheers
jimbo

I have Nero 9. Mainly, I use it for Audio CD burning, as I have a recording studio, and there are no problems. I don't use the Nero backitup as I use Acronis True Image for backups.

Nero has got "bloated" over the years but is heads better than the buggy Roxio. I used Roxio for a long time (started when they were called Adaptec) but had so many problems with each version that I finally gave up. I have problems with an old version (8) of Roxio on a Vista PC and it looks like it's going to take a manual uninstall, including manually editing the registry, to get rid of it as it won't uninstall with uninstall programs.