How do I uninstall InCD & still use CDs and DVDs erased & formatted with it

With Acronis I can choose: My computer, my data, my application settings, and my email. You can then choose where you would like to back it up to, it has a browse option at this point.

Acronis can put the backup info on a disk by itself. Then I erased the disk with Nero. Then I used Acronis to burn the same data. (I could not get the disk with data on it to burn with Nero, so I skipped that step. I got a requires CD-r/rw rather than DVD-r/RW, even though I had correct disk inc
correct draw.)

Anyway, simply erasing with Nero makes disk availabe to reuse with Acronis. Thanks.

Is there a senario where I would need to formatt after erasing a disk?

 

The only senario where you'd need to format the disk is if you want to burn the cd using drag and drop or...... if in the case of you're backup program, you would choose to back up directly to the CDRW. If you choose to backup to somewhere on your hard drive first, then use Nero to burn it, no formatting is necessary.

I think you understand this already but I'll repeat it anyway, just in case. When you want to write to a CDRW (or CDR) directly as if it were any other drive on your puter, you need to have InCD installed and running and you need to format the disk. If you do it this way, you can delete, overwrite, add more, or whatever it is you want to do, just as you would with any hard drive or floppy disk you have.

If you write the file to your hard drive first, then you need to open Nero, and choose the data CD option, then select the file(s) you want and burn it. No formatting is necessary, only a blank disk. Once you've done it this way though, the only way to write to the disk again is to erase the disk. However, if you should ever have to get at the data on a CD that's been written this way, there's no need for InCD to be installed. The CD will be just like any other CD you have and you'll be able to view it (regardless of whether you have InCD installed or not). In my opinion, it's the better option of the two if Acronis gives you the option of backing up to your hard drive.

 

I can backup directly to a DVD-RW or CD-RW with Acronis after disk has been erased with Nero, without formatting disk.

I can also backup to my HD with Acronis, and then burn onto a CD-RW or DVD-RW that has been erased, without formatting.

So you're saying that if I use the erase method, rather than erase and formatt , I can only write to the disk once, then it has to be erased to reuse. Is that why it shows as 7 MB used and 0 bytes free?

 

Well, yes and no. Are you ready for more confusion? OK, here goes. Undoubtedly, the reason it shows 7MBs used and 0 bytes free is because of the fact that you burned it using the erase and then burn using Nero method (does that make sense?). When you burn a disk that way, you can choose to close the disk which makes it unwriteable until you erase it again or you can choose to leave the disk open which will allow you to write more files to it without erasing it first. If you close the disk, it will (or should be anyway) readable on any computer. If you don't close it, it may or may not be readable depending on the software you have installed on the computer you're trying to read it on.

So, if you you want to burn it and use it again without destroying the files that are on it, don't close the disk. I'm not familiar with Nero so I can't really tell you where to go to select that option but my guess is that when you click burn, a window opens (am I right here?) and you have to click OK or some such thing. Look for a button that says advanced options or something similar and click it if it's there. The software I've used usually has something like that and you can usually choose to leave the disk open there. If you can't write to the disk after burning it, it must close it by default so this is something you'd want to look into. Again, check the help files. Maybe search it for close disk. If you find anything there, it'll point to how to leave it open I would think.

I apologize for being quite vague here but I just don't know the exact routine for Nero. I do know though, that you can either close the disk or leave it open for more writing. Perhaps somebody that reads this who has Nero can point you in the right direction. Otherwise, the help file is your best bet.

 

Okay. I erased a DVD-RW using Nero's erase. Then I burned a file (using Nero) that I had backed up to MY Documents on C Drive (using Acronis). I could choose between Start multisession disk, continue multisession disk or no multisession. I made sure I picked start multisession. Still, burned DVD shows as no free space left when only 7MB has been used.

Seems to me that the easiest way to do all this is to use a DVD-RW that has been erased with Nero. Do a backup to that DVD-RW using Acronis. Then to reuse the DVD-RW, erase it with Nero and again use Acronis to back up data to the DVD-RW.

I think any computer can read a DVD-RW that has been used to back up data with Acronis. I hope.

 

Hi Alicia, you are getting there, but can I ask you a question, if I understand you correctly, you are making Incremental Backups to a Backup Folder in My Documents, or just monthly or fortnightly then burn them to DVD then the following month you would need to burn 2 month of backups. Reason I am asking is I can't quite work out why you are erasing the Backup DVD's.
Formatting a DVD with InCD you could compare that a bit like Formatting a Floppy Disk with System Files to make it bootable, when formatting the DVD Nero adds files to the DVD to allow you to delete files and folders like on your HD, Floppy or USB stick. When I am using InCD I do not use drag and drop I use the Send To function Neo will display InCD just like a Floppy or USB stick in your Send To Menu so I simply right click on the File or Folder select Send To > select InCD and click on it, finish InCD will do the rest, this is what I meant when I told you, you do not need to engage the burner.
InCD has lost most of its advantages today smaller files we copy to USB Sticks and large Files to external drives, that makes InCD almost obsolete.
hawk22

 

I have two sets of DVD-RW for backup. I do a full back up every month using Acronis. I do this directly from the HD to the DVD-RW. The next month I use the other set of DVD-RW. Without InCD now, I just erase them with Nero and they're ready to go.