Here are the instructions for backing up data files with Nero burning rom.
Important:
Before burning any cd, all other applications , with the exception of Jaws
should be closed.
CD burning is processor intensive, and should have access to the required
system resources necessary to ensure a quality burn.
1. Open Nero burning rom.
1. open Nero burning rom.
2. go to the file menu, and select, "new", and press enter
this will open the wizard
3. use the tab key to move thru the dialogues, and the up and down arrow
keys to make your selections whenever there are multiple choices.
4. tab until you hear, cd, radio buttonchecked, and then tab to the next
button, and press enter.
5. you should hear, compile a new cd radio button checked, tab to the next
button and press enter.
6. you should hear, data cd radio button checked, tab to the next button and
press enter.
7. you should hear create a new data cd radio button checked, tab to the
next button and press enter.
8. now you should hear finish button, press enter.
9. now you should be in the main window of Nero burning rom, and the title
bar should say, "nero burning rom, Iso 1 new".
10. go to the file menu, and arrow down to, compilation info, and press
enter.
11. You should be on the info tab, so press your right arrow once to place
you on the multi-session tab.
12. now tab until you hear multi-session checked, and use your arrow keys to
select no multi-session.
13. now tab until you come back around to the multi-session tab, and use
your right arrow key to move to the next tab, which will be the Iso tab.
14. on this tab, there will be several checkboxes, and radio buttons make
sure the following
are checked:
cd rom iso
iso level 2 (max of 31 characters)
format mode 1
iso 9660
joliet
the nextt 3 will be checkboxes, make sure to check all 3.
15. now tab until you come back around to the iso tab, and use right arrow
to move to the label tab.
16. tab twice to move to the edit field to label your cd,
if you are satisfied with the name, press enter.
17. now you will be back in the main window of Nero, from here you will need
to go to the folder that contains your data files, and copy that folder to
the clipboard.
18. alt tab back to Nero, and paste your folder from the clipboard.
Note:
this process will take a minute or two, and when it is done, you can use the
say all command to have Jaws read the name of your folder.
when you hear the name of your folder read, you will know that the copying
has finished.
19. now go to the file menu, and select compilation info, and press enter.
route Jaws to pc, and press page up.
now read down 1 line at a time and you will find the number of files and
folders which will be written to the cd, along with the size of the cd.
Note:
make sure your backup job is no larger than 650 mb.
20. if the compilation looks good, then tab to the okay button and press
enter.
21.
After you select write cd from the file menu, and press enter, a new
dialogue will open.
when this dialogue opens, you should be on the burn button, so tab,
until you come to burn radio button checked.
at this point, if this button is not checked you will need to use your up or
down arrow keys to select it.
tab once, and you should hear a write speed combo box.
you can use your up and down arrow keys to move thru this box, and select
the lowest number, at least 4x.
now tab once more, you should come to create image checkbox, make sure it is
not checked.
tab once more and you should be back on the burn button, press enter.
now a new dialogue will open, which should say,
rename files or folders, and you should be on the cancel button.
tab once to the continue button, and press enter.
after you press enter, a new dialogue will open and say,
test of path depth and path length and path name and you should be on the
okay button, press enter
now the burn process should start, and will take some time, depending on the
write speed, the size of the burn, the speed of your processor etc.
this process should not be interrupted, and when done you should get a
dialogue telling you, that either the burn process was completed successfully,
or it wasn't.
If it was, you should be on the okay button, press enter.
The first thing you should hear is, verify written data checkbox.
This should be checked by using the spacebar.
NOTE: It is important to verify the written data, this means that Nero has verified that the data can be accessed from the cd.
If you skip this procedure, you can check the properties of your disk against the properties
of the folder you burned from the hard disk.
However, all this will tell you is that the same amount of files is on the cd,
but, that doesn't mean that they can be accessed.
So do not skip this procedure.
tab to the discard button, and press enter.
the cd will be ejected, and you can use alt f4 to close Nero.
after pressing alt f4, you will get a message asking you if you want to save
this compilation, tabb or down arrow to the no button, and press enter,
or you can select okay, and then save the compilation as you would save any
other file.
If you choose to save the compilation, then you will have the option of adding to it later,
to burn to another cd.
I have never done this, but it should go something like this.
2. from the file menu, select open and press enter.
3. now, using the tab key, browse for the Nero file to open
4. once you have located it, press enter.
5. now just copy any additional files to the compilation,
as described above, and follow the outlined procedure for burning.
Note:
The above procedure has been tested with Nero Burning Rom, version5.5,and Jaws version 3.7 thru 6.1, on a Win98SE machine, 30gb hard drive, 384mg memorey
and a 733mhz pentium 3 processor.