Help with nero 8..

Hi,
bought a new pc 18 months ago, a version of nero came installed with it, also dvd shrink, since then i've been using dvd shrink in conjunction with nero to back up and burn all my commercial dvds and its been great no problems, up until i installed nero 8 trial version to see what it was like, not realizing i had uninstalled my previous version of nero. now using the trial version of nero 8 and dvd shrink is a mess!! every time i try to make a back up copy of a dvd the finished burnt disc is deranged, the dvd doesn't begin at the begining but in the middle, i try to fast forward and rewind but the sections are all back to front, but when i play the same discs in the programme (power dvd 5) the discs are fine from begining to end no problem, (voodoo) since then i've uninstalled nero 8, and i'm now looking to get back my old version of nero, if not i'm looking for a quality freeware dvd burning software, could anybody shed some light on any of this???

Thanks
G1

 

nero 8 has problems auto burning after using dvd shrink. you can write an iso to the HDD with dvd shrink and then burn with nero 8 and it should playback fine then. there been alot of problems with nero 8 so most are sticking with nero 7. if your uninstalling nero use the nero clean tool run CCleaner defrag reboot and reinstall, make sure you get a clean reinstall.

imgburn is a freeware burning program thats superior to nero IMO so you might give that a try instead of using nero.you can get it here

http://imgburn.com/

heres a good thread on the latest most up to date methods on backing up your DVDs

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/622748