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Lightscribe wont work with nero
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Regal2800
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27. March 2006 @ 14:47 |
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Ok i have two versions of nero. nero 6 and ultra and nero 7 ultra. My But not matter what i did do i cant get it to read my lightscribe. With nero 7 i got the lightscribe tab in preferences to show up, but no drive. with nero 6 nothing works. i loaded all the lightscribe drivers. i know the drive works because lightscribe works with another program (intervideo dvd creator).
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27. March 2006 @ 14:59 |
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27. March 2006 @ 15:00 |
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Regal2800
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27. March 2006 @ 15:51 |
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I downloaded the latest verision of Nero. Still no success. It shows the lightscribe tab in preferences but no drive. I also dl the latest driver from lightscribe.com nothing is fixing the problem. Any more ideas?? thanks
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27. March 2006 @ 17:35 |
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Try un-installing the lightscribe driver and rebooting. Nero is supposed to unlock the lightscribe feature when it sees a lightscribe capable drive. For all other drives, that feature is hidden. Un-installing the drivers should make Nero see it, and windows will install the driver on reboot.
Windows>Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager expand dvd/cdrom drives. Go to the lightscribe drive and right click on it. One selection is un-install.
Once you reboot, windows should install the driver, and at the same time Nero should wake up and see your lightscribe. You may have to re-install Nero, but try the driver uninstall first and check to see if Nero saw it.
Worth a try.
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Regal2800
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27. March 2006 @ 17:39 |
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I have unistalled the lightscribe drive, and rebooted no work. i have also unistalled Nero several times and tried several different versions bt nothing works. Now the interesting thing is that the lightscribe works with two other laber makers so i know 100% its not my hardware. Any other ideas?? Are there a lot of other people who have just given up with Nero and lightscribe? i know that its a bug in Nero.
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27. March 2006 @ 17:49 |
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The only other thing i can think of is try doing a clean uninstall of nero, not just an add/remove program. Maybe some old setting is being kept in the registry, if you didnt use the clean tool to remove Nero.
http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/General_CleanTool.html
Thats my last shot at it, as im out of ideas. The lightscribe host software is the only other thing i can think of, and thats already been suggested.
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27. March 2006 @ 18:54 |
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27. March 2006 @ 19:33 |
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In the middle of this thread, we ran into the same thing going on with zhelpz Nero. In that case it was a corrupt file.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/6/241802
Here is what Nero says about lightscribe:
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8. Does Nero 7 support LightScribe technology?
Yes, Nero 7 fully supports LightScribe Direct Disk Labeling.
LightScribe technology requires four elements:
LightScribe enabled CD/DVD recorder
LightScribe compatible CD/DVD
Nero 7 must be installed
LightScribe Host Software must be installed. It can be downloaded from our website: http://dl1.nero.com/LS_HSI.EXE
Please download the LightScribe user guide from our website to learn more about LightScribe.
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9. Why is the LightScribe option in Nero 7 grayed out and not activated?
Please check both of the following settings:
In Windows, go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling Service. Right-click LightScribeService Direct Disc Labeling Service.
Choose Properties.
Go to Startup type and select Automatic.
The display under Service status has to be set to Started.
In Windows, go to > Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Local Policies > Security Options. Double-click the entry Devices: Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on user only.
Choose the option Disabled.
Confirm this change by clicking Apply and OK.
and here is where that hides in Nero:
http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/FAQs_TOP_20.html#8
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Regal2800
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27. March 2006 @ 20:19 |
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Well i took your advice and used Nero uninstall tool. uninstalled it and reinstalled it and lightscribe worked. I think in general its a Nero problem. i here a lot of people having bugs with this.
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27. March 2006 @ 20:45 |
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@Regal2800
Im glad you got it to work.
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I think in general its a Nero problem. i here a lot of people having bugs with this.
Yes, Nero can have many bugs. Some are big, some are small. Some of them most ppl never find, as they dont use that part of Nero.
We have been able to fix most of the lightscribe not being seen problems here. It can be a pain to fix, as you found out. Sometimes it is ppl using an OEM version of Nero, and they swap out the OEM Nero drive for a Lightscribe drive. OEM versions are limited, and only work for the drive that bundled Nero with it.
Your registry was probably keeping the other non-lightscribe burner listing in there, and Nero wasnt seeing your LS drive, and not turning that part on, like it should have. Sounds like the clean tool took out that old burner listing.
They are supposed to be coming out with better/higher contrast LS media, and single colors soon if not already available.
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Regal2800
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28. March 2006 @ 21:21 |
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Ok this is very starnge. My lightscribe will only work with the download of Nero site. 7.0.8.2. I have a few other version of Nero but none of them work. this is very strange.
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