Quote - Well, I just gave up on Nero!!!

I have been trying to burn DVDs all day long!  Out of 9 burning attempts (50 minutes each), I ended up with 2 readable DVDs!!!  All of the rest say that the burn was successfull, but when I look at the DVD contents, there isn't any!!!  Yet when I try to reburn files to it I get a message telling me the DVD is not empty! I tried "multisession", "no multisession", 16x and 12x and even burning only a gig on a 4 gig DVD and nada!!!  All except 2 look like they are empty in "My Computer."  What a waste of time!

I've been using nero for at least 8 years, never had problems with it. That is probably because I download newest nero version when I buy new burner.

Manufacturers give out their bundled software with their hardware, you got nero. But who knows how old is that nero compared to your burner. Maybe they just took what they had from previous orders. If that's the case, problem is that your burner isn't fully supported by that version of nero. You said you got a new computer, that should mean that your burner is also new, you got nero 6.6.0.19 and current nero version is 7.9.6.0. See my point?

Ashampoo you downloaded is new version so it should support it. Try updating your nero 6.6.0.19 to latest v6, 6.6.1.15a, (update package 1, www.nero.com/nero6/eng/nero-up.php
 ). Or download nero 7 trial, maybe nero 6 serial works with it, I know it did in some version jumps (my nero 5 serial worked for nero 6).

Another thing is, which discs you have exactly. It's far from true that all are alike. I had some that are, sorry for expression, just plain crap. Even what's printed on them isn't important, important is who is manufacturer of writing layer. With nero you should have Nero Info Tool (don't worry, it doesn't burn them :), it just reads some info from the drive and discs, if inserted), insert one of your burned or empty DVDs and start it. Choose your burner and tab Disc, it should say there who the manufacturer is. It will probably be some type of code and numbers. Now you can check what people say about that type of layers, either google it or search on this forum club.cdfreaks.com/