and as far as microsoft's instructions... i know how to follow them it's just that my registry has different info than their instructions has, so im confused as to what to do. im afraid i may delete something the registry actually needs, just to make nero work.
so im sorry i keep asking you the same thing, i just want to be sure or clear as to what im doing.
you mentioned to delete Cdralw2k but then microsoft mentions to delete a bunch of things, and you agreed i should. here is what i have. maybe you can take a look at it, and clear it up for me whenever you get a minute.
thanks again Rotary for sticking with the topic and helping me out so much. i will delete those 2 then and do a test burn with Nero just to see what happens and report back.
and how do you back up the registry? i can google it if anything, but i have never deleted anything in my registry before so i have no idea how to back it up. can you just back up those 2 files i would be deleting, and then just add them back if it didnt make a difference? and if so, do you know how would i go about doing that?
i deleted those 2 files from the registry and gave nero/nero vision yet another try. unfortunately, i get the exact same error message i was getting before 'unable to recover toc' blah blah blah. nothing seems to work with this nero thing. on the other hand, i had been successful with the winAvi video converter most every time (even using the so called crappy media/dvd-r's). i'm at a total loss here. you've been very patient and helpful, and i've tried just about everything the forums have suggested. don't know what else to do.
here is a sample of the end of the last error log that it gave me now, just so you could see i got more or less the same error. and yeah, i had defragged the hard drive, rebooted, didnt have anything else running in background, etc. let me know if you can think of anything else. and thanks again for everything.
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #22 SPTI -1122 File SCSIPassThrough.cpp, Line 179
[23:36:02] NeroVision CdRom0: SCSIStatus(x02) WinError(0) NeroError(-1122)
[23:36:02] NeroVision Sense Key: 0x03 (KEY_MEDIUM_ERROR)
[23:36:02] NeroVision Sense Code: 0x57
[23:36:02] NeroVision Sense Qual: 0x00
[23:36:02] NeroVision CDB Data: 0x53 00 00 00 00 00 09 C8 C0 00 00 00
[23:36:02] NeroVision Sense Area: 0x70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A F8 00 00 00 57
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #23 CDR -1122 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1752
[23:36:02] NeroVision Unable to recover TOC
[23:36:02] NeroVision F: MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-845S
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #24 TRANSFER -27 File ThreadedTransferInterface.cpp, Line 1752
[23:36:02] NeroVision Could not perform start of Disc-at-once
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #25 Text 0 File ThreadedTransfer.cpp, Line 269
[23:36:02] NeroVision Pipe memory size 83836800
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #26 Phase 38 File APIProgress.cpp, Line 285
[23:36:02] NeroVision Burn process failed at 2x (2,770 KB/s)
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:35:59 PM #27 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 254
[23:36:02] NeroVision SPTIDismountVolume - completed successfully for FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:36:02 PM #28 Text 0 File Cdrdrv.cpp, Line 11214
[23:36:02] NeroVision DriveLocker: UnLockVolume completed
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision 11:36:02 PM #29 Text 0 File SCSIPTICommands.cpp, Line 411
[23:36:02] NeroVision UnLockMCN - completed sucessfully for IOCTL_STORAGE_MCN_CONTROL
[23:36:02] NeroVision
[23:36:02] NeroVision Existing drivers:
[23:36:02] NeroVision File 'Drivers\PXHELP20.SYS': Ver=2.03.26a, size=20576 bytes, created 5/12/2005 6:54:10 PM (Prassi/Veritas driver for win 2K)
[23:36:02] NeroVision Registry Keys:
[23:36:02] NeroVision HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\AllocateCDROMs : 0 (Security Option)
