Ahead Nero

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:36 am

I have two cd writers. One is a lite-on and the other is a Yamaha. I have the Nero disk that came with the Lite-on but somehow lost the disk for the Yamaha. No problem because I have the Lite-on disk...so I blithly thought.
The Yamaha is on a different computor that was my daughters and am now setting up for photography imaging. Well I cleared up a bunch of stuff and consolodated other stuff in preperation to save it to cd. The original Nero software got eliminated when I formatted some of the logical drives. So I loaded the Nero software from the Lite-on drive. I thought all was good until I got the message that the software is propiatary to the Lite-on drive.

So the question is: Is there some fix so I can use the Lite-on Nero software with the Yamaha drive?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 11:40 am

I dunno. it pissed me off when I bought a mitsumi burner for my uncle.

You might be able to hack the yamaha to idenfity as the lite-on.

Personally, I'd buy a retail copy of nero. till then, you can always nab the demo.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 1:44 pm

Thanks Flip. Going to the website I see the key lies in the regedit. If I could figure out the serial number of the yamaha I think I could substitute that with the lite-on # found in the Hkey_local Machine > software.
I'm not sure if the serial # on the yamaha body would be the correct one...stand by.

Well I thought I had a brain storm. I tried to match the lite-on serial number found in regedit with what is on the lite-on body and they don't match. Hmmm...you don't suppose in bios...? Off I go to check bios.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:08 pm

Second brainstorm was a no go. So the question is where or what does the Nero software read to compare serial number?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:13 pm

woodchip wrote:Second brainstorm was a no go. So the question is where or what does the Nero software read to compare serial number?

I thought it just matched against the name reported by the burner.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:53 pm

You're right. Re-reading the nero website the sn I was refering to is the software's sn. So now back to square one.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:44 pm

So as I see it, somehow the cd drivr has to be renamed from yamaha to lite-on. It appears that thru control panel/system/device manager that the drives both list basic m.s. drivers so there is nothing special there. So is the cd rom drive's name first established in bios? If so if one goes into dos can one change the drives name thru dir:\ (drives letter): and not suffer the drive to be non recognisable?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:52 pm

No, it more like this:

Nero: Whats your name, Mr Burner?
Burner: My name is HL-DT-ST CDRW...

My guess is, you'd need to hack the firmware of the yamaha drive itself.

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 5:14 pm

Yeah, bundled software only works with the drive it's licensed for. Unless you do something nefarious and illegal to the software, but I wouldn't know anything about that. Really.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 7:19 pm

Well that finishes it then. Guess I'll either buy another one or swap out the lite-on between the 2 comp.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:09 am

why not just use the free demo?

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 7:41 am

WarAdvocat wrote:why not just use the free demo?

It is only good for a certain period of time and I'm looking long term.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:08 am

You can always 'obtain' (via purchase or more nefarious means) a product key at a later date?

Iceman · Post by **Iceman** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:42 am

I got frustrated with this problem myself and broke down and bought a license. I paid like $70 for the downloadable version and it was well worth it. The whole package rocks ... its a great tool in my toolbox.

BAAL · Post by **BAAL** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:29 am

I also swear by Nero, its alwats been esy to use and very efficient. Havent made more than 1 or two coasters with it, and at least one of those was due to my "keyboard to chair interface".