Nero (or NEC 1100) not working

[waqti]

Thank you all for trying to help.

It was a bad spindle. Some media was good while most of it was not. By coincidence, when I ran RNM, I used the good media, and when I ran NERO, I used the bad media, confusing me completely.

I got a new spindle, and everything is fine!

As for bighap, I must be dumber than even my friends thought! I read the sticky about back-ups, and STILL am no better off. Maybe I don't have the right tools for the job.

-I have Nero 5.5 and 6. They don't seem to help.
-RecordNow Max 4.5. ditto
-DVDShrink 3.05. Wonderful at decrypting movies, but does not recognize PS2 games
-DVD Decrypter seems to want only to write to DVD, not Hard Drive.

That's all I got!

Maybe I need to buy software, or maybe there is freeware out there.

Further help will be appreciated.

Thanks!