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Nero 5.5 CD-burning SW Question

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by galahad04

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Does anyone know if the Nero 5.5 (software used to burn CD-writeable media) allows you to span files across multiple CDs when burning?

I initially tried to contact Nero first to ask them directly, but they didn't respond to my e-mail with no telephone number so I thought I'd try to see if anyone in TechRepublic has used Nero and knows. :)

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by cg it

when you say "span files" do you mean drag & drop files from CD's residing on multiple drives?

by cg it

I have both Nero and Roxio (I use Roxio mostly) and found that Nero doesn't have an automated program for creating multiple CD programs. You kinda have to create the multiple CD yourself via multisession and drag/drop only what will fit on one CD, then create a lead in lead out that specified a continuation on CD # 2 and so on. The only automated program for multiple CD burns is the hard drive backup utility. Atleast that is what I found using Nero.

by cg it

It might be possible, though I've never tried selectively backing up a hard drive with Nero. I've backed up my hard drive with Nero (Whew! took over 20 CD's [19GB of data] ) but that was the whole drive [including partitions]. This is something you might just have to play around with to see what you can do. I still think you can make up multiple CD's for saving files, just manually, not automated like a hard drive backup.

by cg it

ok, I looked at Nero's hard drive backup and supposedly you can pick and choose partitions to backup. Therefore, you could create a partition, dump whatever you want to backup on CD into it and then only "backup" that partition onto multiple CD's. That would be an automatic backup of data onto multiple CD's [you just keep inserting CD's over and over and over till your sick of it] [According to Nero, my 6 BG system partition is 10 CD's, the whole 30GB disk is 45+ CD's]. {Frizbee time}.

by galahad04

Answer #1 Poster: yes -- by "spanning" I mean copying a file too big for one CD across multiple CDs.

by thechas

"Standard" CD burning software does not have the ability to "span" multiple CDs.

You need backup software that supports using a CD drive as the backup device.

Or, you can manually set up data sets that do not exceed the capacity of your blank CDs.

Chas

by Former member

Hi,
the easiest way to do this is to split the file first. Try File Splitter 1.01 from www.download.com (it's freeware). As the other posters have answered, you can't span CDs.

by galahad04

DR: Thanks for your quick response to my earlier comment. Hope you don't mind, but I have a brief follow-up question regarding your last post: you mentioned Nero's hard drie backup utility. Could you please elaborate a little on this tool? For example, could this tool theoretically simulate the multiple disk spanning operation (i.e., by doing a selective hard drive backup of *only* the desired files or folders, assuming they would exceed the capacity of a single writeable CD)?

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