Morning all

Burnt two DVDs of some scanned negs on the office XP machine in Nero 6.
Apparently it didn't finalise the disc and now I can't read them on the iMac at home.
Any clues on how to get Nero to finalise the discs now?
I would Google it, but the office Bloxx software thinks every forum or site I visit is something naughty.

Needs to be done in the burning machine IIRC

Yeah, I've stuck the disc back in the machine on my desk, that I'm writing this from, and I can't see any obvious way of ticking a box in Nero that says 'Finalise disc'.
Which is kind of what I'd have expected, but I guess Nero and I differ on the matter.

The options you have depend massively on which version of Nero you have. Or it did 5 years ago the last time I used it.

In the full version, from memory there's a menu item called "disk tools" or similar and I think it was in there.

The lite version is all wizard based so I doubt there's an option specifically to finalise a disk. What you might have to do is append a small file and tick the finalise disk option when you burn that.

If it's Windows 7 then I don't think you need an application. Just right-click / finalise from Explorer.

Alternatively, I'd probably just re-burn the data to new disks making sure the finalise disk option was ticked at the start.

However, I'm surprised your Mac couldn't read it regardless of whether it was finalised. The entire point of being able to part-burn a disk is that you can read it, and append data to it later as you wish. If it's an old machine then it may have difficulty reading some brands of disk regardless. Does it have a DVD burner? Typical older DVD burners read DVD-R but not DVD+R, while some DVD drives won't read either format unless the dye is particularly good quality.

This is the OEM version of 6. I can't see any 'disk tools' options. I've Nero Startsmart, Nero Express, Nero Toolkit (a folder which contains some more hardware orientated apps such as Nero Drivespeed, Nero CD/DVD Speed, and Nero Infotool.



Ah yeah - I'll give that a whirl.



We only just got XP SP3 this year. I hate XP.



Can't - had to delete the files to make space on the titchy 40GB HD ready for today's scans and prints. Hence making the DVD backups to take home. 6GB of files.



Yup, this is a mid 2010 iMac, with a burner. The internets tell me I am far from alone with having issues with unfinalised media - Windows and Mac don't like it, it seems. There's a sway of thought out there that this needs to die a quiet death.

Thinking about it, if the problem is with multi-session disks then finalising it probably won't help because you'll have two sessions.

Can you just copy the disks onto a USB flash drive? Presumably they read fine on the machine you burned them on.

Ordinarily that's what I do.
Some sodding student has walked off with my 8GB drive, and my 16GB drive is attached to my car keys (which is with the garage).
Ah well. They'll keep till Monday.