Help Needed With A Vista Problem

[geronimo]

I am running XP Vista and everything was fine until I installed an old nero version. When I opened up nero, it said I had no cd drives. (I have a dvd and a cd drive and it couldn't find either). So I uninstyalled nero and after a boot up, both my cd drives are not recognised. They are in device manager with a yellow exclamation mark saying that the registry is either incomplete or damaged. I tried uninstalling them and rebooting and while windows finds the new hardware it is still in the same condition. I went to system restore but that is turned off by default (which I think is a mistake!) so I can't restore to an earlier time. I found registry edit but I know f*** all about going into there. Can anyone advise? I'd prefer to avoid a format and reinstall if poss as I just had to do that once already only the other day.

Any advice appreciated

[geronimo]

I am running XP Vista and everything was fine until I installed an old nero version. When I opened up nero, it said I had no cd drives. (I have a dvd and a cd drive and it couldn't find either). So I uninstyalled nero and after a boot up, both my cd drives are not recognised. They are in device manager with a yellow exclamation mark saying that the registry is either incomplete or damaged. I tried uninstalling them and rebooting and while windows finds the new hardware it is still in the same condition. I went to system restore but that is turned off by default (which I think is a mistake!) so I can't restore to an earlier time. I found registry edit but I know f*** all about going into there. Can anyone advise? I'd prefer to avoid a format and reinstall if poss as I just had to do that once already only the other day.

Any advice appreciated

I have a trial version of registry mechanic in the vista edition and I ran a reg scan and I think it found the probs ..... however it won't fix them unless I register and buy the program. I have a copy of reg mechanic on CD but of course I can't install it as I don't have access to any cd rom drives!!!

Also I have just realised that I cannot format and re install as I can't get the vista cd to boot!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!

[geronimo]

I am running XP Vista and everything was fine until I installed an old nero version. When I opened up nero, it said I had no cd drives. (I have a dvd and a cd drive and it couldn't find either). So I uninstyalled nero and after a boot up, both my cd drives are not recognised. They are in device manager with a yellow exclamation mark saying that the registry is either incomplete or damaged. I tried uninstalling them and rebooting and while windows finds the new hardware it is still in the same condition. I went to system restore but that is turned off by default (which I think is a mistake!) so I can't restore to an earlier time. I found registry edit but I know f*** all about going into there. Can anyone advise? I'd prefer to avoid a format and reinstall if poss as I just had to do that once already only the other day.

Any advice appreciated

I have a trial version of registry mechanic in the vista edition and I ran a reg scan and I think it found the probs ..... however it won't fix them unless I register and buy the program. I have a copy of reg mechanic on CD but of course I can't install it as I don't have access to any cd rom drives!!!

Also I have just realised that I cannot format and re install as I can't get the vista cd to boot!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!

Well I managed to format and reinstall everything

Thanks for the many offers of help on this one

I would have thought someone out there might have been able to help ... Whatever

[cdnvic]

Nobody owes you immediate service here, we all get busy. You should have been a bit more patient or done a web search (Google or Yahoo would have given you the solution in seconds). This is something that a simple system restore could have handled in two minutes.

Edited August 4, 2007 by cdnvic

[britmaveric]

Need Nero Essentials 7, any other is incompatible I'm afraid. This is what prob mucked it up in the first place.

[Guest Reimar]

The minimum need is Nero 7.7.5 Essential for Vista. If you have a older Neroversion with Serial Key, you can download the latest version 1.10.x from the web and install it. But be aware, its more than 300 MB!

Anyway as cndvic wrote: be a bit more patient! Let say: Rome isn't build i one day that have need a long time but bruned dow fast!

[geronimo]

The minimum need is Nero 7.7.5 Essential for Vista. If you have a older Neroversion with Serial Key, you can download the latest version 1.10.x from the web and install it. But be aware, its more than 300 MB!

Anyway as cndvic wrote: be a bit more patient! Let say: Rome isn't build i one day that have need a long time but bruned dow fast!

Sorry guys, will be patient in the future.

[Rice_King]

One more thing. The thread's subject line, "Help Needed With A Vista Problem" is more than a bit vague. And the issue was not a Vista problem. More like a Nero compatibility issue.

Think of someone doing a search of this forum in the future. Now imagine looking at the index of an archive of questions, with just the subject lines showing. Make your subject line reflect your question well enough that the next guy searching the archive with a question similar to yours will be able to follow the thread to an answer rather than posting the question again.

[wpcoe]

Oh, Rice_King, how I so very much agree with you. In the main visa forum so often folks post a title like "HELP!" or "Help needed ... urgent" and you just wonder whether to bother downloading the thread, because so often it's not something you know anything about. This forum is particularly nice in that you get two lines of info that can be displayed on the forum thread list, if only it were properly used.

[solo siam]

I don't even know what XP Vista is.

[Rice_King]

Oh, Rice_King, how I so very much agree with you. In the main visa forum so often folks post a title like "HELP!" or "Help needed ... urgent" and you just wonder whether to bother downloading the thread, because so often it's not something you know anything about. This forum is particularly nice in that you get two lines of info that can be displayed on the forum thread list, if only it were properly used.

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[cdnvic]

Great post Rice King. We used to have one pinned to the top of the forum with "Read before posting" that nobody read of course