InCD Manual Nero AG
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Contents Contents 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 General Information About the manual About InCD InCD versions InCD Reader 5 5 5 6 6 2 2.1 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 Technical Information System requirements Operating systems Hardware Packet writing software Discs supported Disc formats supported 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 Installation Installing InCD Uninstalling InCD Installing SecurDisc 8 8 9 9 4 4.1 4.1.1 4.2 4.
Contents 8 Drive Information Screen 28 9 Drive Options Screen 29 10 Saving Data to a Disc Formatted Using InCD 30 11 Erasing Data from a Disc Formatted Using InCD 31 12 Keyboard Shortcuts 32 13 Index 33 14 Contact 34 Nero InCD 4
General Information 1 General Information 1.1 About the manual In order to make best use of this manual, please note the following conventions: Symbol Meaning Indicates warnings, preconditions or instructions that have to be followed strictly. Indicates additional information or advice. 1. Start … A number at the beginning of a line indicates a request for action. Carry out these actions in the order specified. Indicates an intermediate result. Indicates a result.
General Information 1.3 InCD versions Two different versions of InCD 5 are available: InCD 5 and InCD 5 Essentials. InCD Essential supports only rewritable discs (RW discs). 1.4 InCD Reader With InCD Reader, all discs that were created with InCD can be read, even on computers that do not have InCD installed. In addition, InCD Reader provides read access to all discs that were created with SecurDisc – even on drives without SecurDisc support.
Technical Information 2 Technical Information 2.1 System requirements 2.1.1 Operating systems Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, Windows® 2003 Server, Windows Vista® 2.1.2 Hardware CD/DVD recorder that supports write-once and rewritable discs (MMC compliant, multiread RW recorders, MRW (Mt Rainer) supporting recorder). The majority of drives that support the Mount Rainier function are labeled "EasyWrite." EasyWrite is a registered trademark of Philips. 2.1.
Installation 3 Installation 3.1 Installing InCD The following requirements must be fulfilled for installing InCD: You must first uninstall any older versions of InCD that may be installed (3.x and 4.x). You must have administrator rights for the computer on which you want to install or uninstall InCD. InCD is a Nero application and as such is available both on the Nero disc and in the download package. However, InCD is not installed with the standard Nero installation.
Installation Î Your computer is restarted. InCD is installed; the InCD icon is available in the task bar, the InCD tab is available under the disc drive Properties in Windows® Explorer®. Nero StartSmart is displayed again. 3.2 Uninstalling InCD As with all other Nero applications, InCD is uninstalled using Nero ProductSetup. To remove InCD completely from your computer, proceed as follows. 1. Close all non-essential Windows® applications and close any anti-virus software which may be running. 2.
Accessing SecurDisc 4 Accessing SecurDisc If InCD is installed, both the InCD icon and the SecurDisc icon appear in the system tray after the computer has been booted (no special link is created in the program directory).
Accessing SecurDisc 4.1.1 SecurDisc - Options window In this window, you can specify how SecurDisc should behave when a SecurDisc disc is inserted. Fig.
Accessing SecurDisc 4.2 SecurDisc - Drive and disc features window In the SecurDisc - Drive and disc features window, you can select the drive you want, display the capabilities of the selected drive, enter a password in the General area if the disc is password-protected, confirm a digital signature, and ascertain whether the files on the disc have been changed since they were last opened. Fig.
Accessing SecurDisc General area Button Enter password Opens the Data Protection window where you can enter a password (in the corresponding field) in case a password is required for opening the disc or the files on it. This button is only available if the data on the disc is password protected. Button Opens the Verify Digital Signature window where you can select Confirm digital and start the corresponding public key.
Accessing SecurDisc Fig. 3: SecurDisc - Data Protection window 1. Enter the required password in the corresponding field or paste it using the From Clipboard button. 2. Click the OK button. Æ You are returned to the SecurDisc - Drive and disc features window. 5. If the SecurDisc disc is protected by a digital signature, click the Confirm digital signature button. Æ The Verify Digital Signature window is displayed. Fig. 4: SecurDisc - Verify Digital Signature window 1.
Accessing SecurDisc 6. If the PDF file on the SecurDisc DVD has a removable copy-protection, click the Allow Duplication button. Æ The Allow Duplication window is displayed. Fig. 5: SecurDisc - Allow Duplication window 1. Enter the required password in the corresponding field or paste it using the From Clipboard button. 2. Click the OK button. Æ Duplication protection is removed. You are returned to the SecurDisc - Drive and disc features window. 7.
Accessing InCD 5 Accessing InCD If InCD is installed, both the InCD icon and the InCD/SecurDisc icon appear in the system tray after the computer has booted (no special link is created in the program directory). You can start InCD directly with the InCD icon. The InCD icon can change shape, thus providing different kinds of information about the drive and the disc contained in the drive.
Accessing InCD 5.1 InCD tab InCD creates the InCD tab under Properties in the context menu of the the recorder drive after installation. It provides information on the recorder and on the disc that has been inserted and provides access to the main InCD screens. Fig. 7: InCD tab The InCD tab provides the same information on device capabilities and the status of the disc that has been inserted as the Drive Information screen (see the chapter Drive Information Screen).
Accessing InCD 5.2 InCD main screen Double-clicking the InCD icon in the task bar launches the application and displays the InCD main screen. You can also start InCD via the context menu of the InCD icon (To the Main Window menu item). You can also access the InCD preferences here. Fig.
Accessing InCD Icons Opens the Format screen with a number of options for setting the Format Disc formatting for the disc contained in the drive (see the chapter Format Screen). 5.3 Erase Disc Opens the Erase window where you can erase the inserted disc with either Quick or Full (see the chapter Erase Screen). Drive Info Opens the Drive Information screen containing information on the device capabilities of the drive and on the disc status (see the chapter Drive Information Screen).
Accessing InCD Auto-format (if possible) option button Starts a quick format when a disc is inserted if this is possible. Open format dialog option button Opens the formatting dialog on insertion of a disc. Let InCD decide option button InCD decides which of the three aforementioned options will be selected based on the recorder and disc inserted.
Accessing InCD 10. Check the Keep open dialog box with event notifications box if you want the dialog box at the bottom right margin of your screen to be permanently available. 11. Select the language that should be used in InCD from the drop-down menu. 12. Click the OK button. Î You have now defined the general preferences. 5.3.2 Defining an action on insertion of a blank disc To define the action that should be performed automatically on insertion of a blank disc, proceed as follows: 1. Start InCD. 2.
Accessing InCD 5. Select the Interactive choice option button if you want to select whether a write-once disc should be ejected immediately or only after the session is finished. 6. Select the Close the last session on the disc before ejecting option button if the disc is not to be ejected before the last session is closed. 7. Select the Eject immediately option button if the disc is to be ejected immediately without closing the last session beforehand. 8. Click the OK button.
Format Screen 6 Format Screen You must format unformatted discs before you can use them with InCD. Fig. 9: Format screen To do this, the following option buttons and check boxes are available in the Format screen: Option buttons Quick Only formats the disc logically, i.e. the data on it is not deleted but only the information about the data contained on it. The disc appears blank and its full capacity is available even though the old data is still physically available.
Format Screen Check boxes Mount Rainier (MRW) Formats the disc in the Mount Rainier format. Verify Checks the file system on the disc. Depending on the disc, formatting with verification can take between 30 and 45 minutes, and more in extreme cases. This check box is not available for MRW formatting. Duplicate Metadata Offers extra protection for written data, as the data information is saved twice. If a sector on the disc is defective, the data can still be read on the basis of the metadata.
Format Screen Formatting in the background Formatting in the background is performed by the drive itself when it is idle, i.e. is not being used for reading or writing. It is interrupted when you access the disc (to read, write or eject) and resumes when the drive is idle again and contains the appropriate disc. This applies also if the computer is shut down while formatting in the background. 6.1 Formatting a disc To format a disc, proceed as follows: 1. Insert a disc into the recorder. 2.
Erase Screen 7 Erase Screen Erasing a disc is not like deleting data from a diskette or hard drive. Erasing a disc also removes the formatting, leaving the disc completely blank and as new. You can format write-once discs (R discs) using InCD and then gradually write to them according to their capacity. You can also delete files, but this does not free up the associated capacity. In contrast to RW/RE discs, it is not possible to reformat and then rewrite these kinds of discs using InCD. Fig.
Erase Screen Windows 98/Me compatibility When erasing a +/-DVD-RAM or BD+RE/BD-RE, this ensures that when it is reinserted into the drive even under Windows® 98/ME it will be identified correctly and not as an audio disc. Consumer electronic devices compatibility Ensures when erasing a disc that it is still compatible with the consumer electronic device for which it is intended.
Drive Information Screen 8 Drive Information Screen The Drive Information screen provides information on the name and capabilities of the selected drive as well as the inserted disc. Fig. 11: Drive Information screen Check boxes Recorder Indicates whether the drive has recorder functionality. Mount Rainier Indicates whether the drive can write and read discs in Mount Rainier format. DRT-DM Indicates whether the drive supports DRT-DM.
Drive Options Screen 9 Drive Options Screen The Drive Options screen shows the options available as check boxes depending on the disc inserted. Fig. 12: Drive Options screen The following check boxes are available: Write with verify Verifies the user data when writing to the disc. Write protection Enables/disables write protection . This check box is only available for DVD-RAM discs already formatted.
Saving Data to a Disc Formatted Using InCD 10 Saving Data to a Disc Formatted Using InCD A disc formatted using InCD can be used just like a hard drive or diskette. You can simply move, copy or send to the disc, and save documents from other applications to it. To do this, proceed as follows: 1. Insert a disc formatted using InCD into the recorder. 2. Select the files from Windows® Explorer® that you want to move to the InCD disc. 3. Drag the selected files to the drive icon.
Erasing Data from a Disc Formatted Using InCD 11 Erasing Data from a Disc Formatted Using InCD You can also erase data from a disc formatted using InCD just as you would on a hard drive. But there is a slight restriction: although you can delete files from R discs (write-once discs), this does not free up the associated capacity. You can therefore not "overwrite" any files on said discs. However, this is possible on all RW/RE discs. To delete data from a disc formatted using InCD, proceed as follows: 1.
Keyboard Shortcuts 12 Keyboard Shortcuts The following key combinations for entering commands are available for InCD: [Ctrl+F] Opens the Format screen. [Ctrl+E] Opens the Erase screen. [Ctrl+I] Opens the Drive Information screen. [Ctrl+O] Opens the Drive Options screen. [Page Up] Opens the previous page of the main window. [Page Down] Opens the next page of the main window. [Ctrl+K] Opens the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box. [Ctrl+X] Opens/closes the drive tray.
Index 13 Index Preferences Uninstalling Use for Saving Data A About InCD Accessing InCD 5 10, 16 C Contact Conventions Auto-Format Tab Defining Ejecting Writable Discs General Tab 34 5 D InCD Reader InCD Tab Disc Copy To Erasing Supported InCD Icon Shapes InCD Preferences 30 26, 27 7 K 7 L Keyboard Shortcuts 18, 19 9 30 16 18, 19 19 16, 18, 19, 20 20 19 7 17 18, 32 Disc Format Supported Drive Selection Drive Info Screen Drive Options Screen DRT-DM Duplicate Metadata Enabled Duplicati
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