DVD backup on W3V- Need Some Help!

As of Monday evening, I am the proud owner of an Asus W3V. This is one beautiful machine! I've followed the instructions here on the board for undervolting and the computer is now running extremely cool. With regular internet tasks (using wireless), I was able to get more than four hours out of the battery yesterday. The fan never went beyond 1200RPM on the Asus Probe.

I have a rather stupid question about the DVD burner. I would like to back up a bunch of my files onto a DVD-R, but I can't seem to do this from the windows screen. With a CD-R, I can just put in the blank disc, drag the files to be backed up onto the disc and then burn it. I can't seem to do this with the DVD-R. I'm using a DVD+R to try to do the backup. Does anyone know if it's possible to back up files in this fashion onto a DVD-R or whether I need another program to do this? Any suggestions are very much appreciated!

Thanks!

 

That's a horrible way to back up. You can do it but use Nero or something else. Basically every format dvd will work with that drive, but it won't work with everything brand available on the market.

 

If you install separate packet writing software you will get this functionality for DVDs as well. The Windows XP built-in system only work with CDs. Install the supplied Nero OEM Suite and, for example, update it, and you should have drag-and-drop burning for DVD.

 

That's just the thing...... if they bought a W3v, Nero was already installed.... or it should have been... and it should have worked.

 

Thanks for the advice, guys! Nero was not preinstalled on my computer but I'm pretty sure I saw it on one of the app CDs that came with the computer. I'll check tonight and install it.

 

nero doesn't come pre-installed. I had to install it myself from the included app CD.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the version of Nero included. I liked the older version of Nero, but this one feels a lot like bloatware.

 

5.5 was great, you're right...... even though 6 *seems* that way... it's really not... look at how many resources it's actually using. The new interface is something comes when going from a cult favorite to being on a best buy shelf. It's got more of that windows xp flare... but that's about it.

I guess I never noticed that they stopped installing nero and asus dvd at the factory... but it's still in the box.

 

It's no biggie, I actually perfer that it's not pre-installed.

I really do not like that nero smartstart feature though. It's probably a personal thing, but I hate apps that insist on having a small monitoring program running in the background (nero smartstart, winamp agent, etc).

asus also is notriously bad for having a lot of mandatory resource hogging software:
Hcontrol.exe takes up nearly 7MB's (required for the quick launch buttons)
ATKOSD.exe takes up 3.5MB's (asus acpi control driver)
1xconfig.exe, ZCfgSvc.exe, EvtEng.exe, S24EvMon.exe, and iFrmewrk.exe takes up 33.8MB's all together (all required for the stupid wireless button to work)
TosBtHSP.exe, TosA2dp.exe and TosBtMng.exe takes up 13MB total (required for bluetooth)
I won't even get into Norton internet security, cause I got sick of that, uninstalled it and put on AVG personal, which I have disabled from starting up.

So 57.3MB are already sucked up from those.
60.3 if we add in CHC (undervolting).

When I brought the W3V, I was going to upgrade to 1GB of ram, but after noticing how much memory those things suck up, I decided to go for 1.5GB instead

 

You can disable it. And if you pay you can have the old 'power user interface' back, along with that other stuff that cost licence/patent fees such as the AC3 and MPEG2 encoder.

Me too. Luckily most can be disabeled easily.

I also think that's a bit much. It only use about 3MB here, though.

This is actually the on-screen icons you get when using the hotkeys. You can kill it, but you'll loose visual feedback.

Blame Intel, not Asus. Use the inbuilt Zero Configuration if you need the RAM. (Install only drivers, not ProSet.)

All BT stacks are memory hogs. The Broadcom/Vidcomm driver is worse. There are some guides out there to make a small .inf-file that should allow the XP SP2 driver to work, but you'll lose features.

Centrino Hardware Control actually allocates about 24MB RAM on load.

Overall I actually think that asus is among the 'best in class' when it comes to not installing loads of crap.

 

your hcontrol only takes up 3 MBs?? what the heck is wrong with mine?

 

I guess it varies. Checked my A2D that hasn't been rebooted for two weeks and there it was 6.5MB total. 3.8MB in RAM and an additional 2.7MB allocated but not in main memory. Not a big bother for me, but it doesn't seem to be the most effectively coded application around. Most things aren't.