I'm having problems getting NERO to install on my boot disk. Instead of having it connected to the MOBO it's connected to a PCI ATA133 card which means it looks very much like a SCSI drive. It took me forever to get XP Pro installed to the disk but it's now working 100%. NERO caused my PC to instantaneously reboot when it gets to the Registry Settings part of the installation. I'm talking to their support via email but it's painfully slow. Any ideas?
Do you definitely have the right driver installed for the PCI IDE controller - I take it Windows isn't just listing it as a Standard PCI IDE Controller or something?
No, it's definitely the correct driver. Odd that nothing else has caused any problems ata ll, I wonder if Nero is doing something underhad like trying to set my hard disk serial number..Originally Posted by seanblee
Nero is normally a pretty painless install in my experience. I really have no idea what's going on in your case - I take it no other installers have ever crashed it?
That's the really odd thing - no other problems with anything else at all. NERO support have sent me an email asking me to turn on some sort of logging for the installation but I'm a bit reluctant to go through it again in case I end up corrupting my XP installation, sudden re-boots in the middle of an installation must be a risk to the hard disks.
It's a bit of a risk - you can make it safe by turning off write caching on your hard disks temporarily (Device Manager -> Disk Drives -> (your drive) -> Policies and uncheck the box). That way, if you're running under NTFS you should be relatively safe with it rebooting.
Great Idea seanblee, I'm going to do that with all my drives I think, Delayed Write Failures are the reason I've started re-jigging everything so it makes sense.
It's worth a try - it's likely to make writes quite slow, but it's good for testing.
If it gives me a bit more confidence that files are actually being moved & copied then I'm happy to lose a bit of performance. If I still enable them on the XP drive it should minimise the impact I think?
if you want to help in the visualisation of the performance hit try:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
will let you see all the file accesses that happen in real time.
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
Nice one TheAnimus, didn't realise anything like that existed. Have you ever used it?
yes, the guys at sysinternals are really good hackers of windows, take a look at some of their stuff (their Winternals admin pack is a must)
throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)
Winternals is a bit too 'enterprise' for my humble needs but there's some great stuff on the sysinternals web site.
I like the Blue Screen of Death screensaver - shows a very particular sense of humour.
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