Alternative to Roxio/Nero

[MasterRacker]

I'm building a new XP box and I'm looking for a free alternative to Roxio & Nero for CD/DVD authoring. The specific issue I'm trying to address involves making bootable CDs. I recently tried to make a slipstreamed XP-SP3 CD and the OEM Roxio 9 DE I have on another machine didn't seem to give me any control over adding the boot image so the resulting CD didn't actually boot.

Just looking for a free burning suite someone can actually vouch for from experience.

Jeff
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[2ffat]

I've been using CD Burner XP. I really like it. As a matter of fact, I dropped my Roxio "lite", the version that came with my PC. You can download CD Burner XP from CNet's downloads.


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[SimonDavies]

Try using something like UltraISO, it's great at creating the ISO's and then burns them as well.

Admittedly I haven't had issues with Nero6 or 7 for creating bootable disks but I haven't tried with 8 or 9.

Simon

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[BadBigBen]

UltraISO, while it is a fabulous app, it is not free...

I have to agree with CD Burner XP, will work like a charm...

others you may wish to try:

ImgBurn

http://www.imgburn.com/

StarBurn FREE CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD recording and mastering application

http://www.rocketdivision.com/starburn.html

Ben

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[MasterRacker]

I've run across some of those surfing but wanted experience based opinions from a community I "know". Sounds like CD Burner XP will be the starting point.

Thanks all.

Jeff
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"The software I buy sucks, The software I write sucks. It's time to give up and have a beer..." - Me[/small]

 

[eyec]

CD Burner XP
and while you are at it get a copy of Nlite

 

[BMcAnly]

While this may not be a direct answer to your post, you can find quite a bit of freeware at

http://www.techsupportalert.com/

hope it helps.



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