Multisession writeovers

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Oyster

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I'm trying to make a disk that will per;mit me to write to it from time to time, as I did with the bundled and tempermental EASY CD Direct. I'm using Nero 6, and I can indeed write to Nero's multisession disk. Unfortunately, I write over whatever was on the disk when I loaded it, so that I have only one session at a time on the CD. Clearly, I'm overlooking something; what is it?
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LTR12101B

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There seems to be an error in Nero 6, at least in usability....

Nero 5.5 WIZARD mode, would take you to an option to START MULTISESSION, or CONTINUE MULTISESSION.

Nero 6 SMARTSTART, appears to have no option to continue multisession.

The only way, is to start Nero 6, choose the CD-ROM (ISO) compilation type, select "Continue" on the Multisession tab, and then present the CD-R that you wish to continue (in the writer, of course).

There are tools which can recover previous sessions if you need to get them back - it's cropped up before.
 
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Oyster

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Quicken backups

Thanks for your prompt and generous answer. I can now ADD files to the disk, which I could not do before. But perhaps you could speak to this further question. It's important to me to be able to tell Quicken to copy a set of files to a CD. CD-Direct let me do this by setting up a multisession CD as if it were a floppy. I could tell quicken to backup to D: (the CD burner) exactly as I could tell it to backup to E: or G: Will Nero let me do this? So far, presenting a Nero multisession CD to Quicken generates only a shrug.
 
Duracell

Duracell

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Oyster said:
CD-Direct let me do this by setting up a multisession CD as if it were a floppy. I could tell quicken to backup to D: (the CD burner) exactly as I could tell it to backup to E: or G: Will Nero let me do this?
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this is called packet writing; try the forum's search button and type in "packet AND writ*" (without quotes), so you will learn this is definitively the insecurest method to store data; if you like to ignore all these hints, then install Ahead's packet writer named InCD in addition to Nero;

Greetings from
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Oyster

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Thanks, Duracell. However ...

...though InCD shows up on the icon-laden plaquet, it will not run. More important, I used Mike Lin's well-behaved utility Startup Control shortly after exiting my experiments with Nero. I run it routinely to check on apps that have infiltrated my startup list. Sure enough, there was "Nero filters". As I clicked on it to disable, the machine gave up the ghost with a BSOD (Win2K SP3). Immediately after rebooting, I got a flag from Nero warning me that it had had to correct a corrupt file, and that all would be well until after a reboot. Until then, however, I would have no CD. And all that proved to be so.

Wellsir, I can't help but wonder how in hell I get rid of this app now that it has apparently strangled my old CD driver, and won't let me run the device without its permission! What happens if I uninstall it, an option that looks more and more attractive?

Regards,
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