using the pc while erasing discs with nero

Would anyone know if a pc can be used - surfing, using windows explorer, using usb flash drives, moving files etc when nero is erasing discs or does this cause problems with nero in that it won't operate correctly to erase the discs? Thanks for reading and in advance for any help offered. hedley

Technically there is no reason why you can't do that, at least to my knowledge, others may know of exceptions, BUT, that said, it depends on the power of the system (not electrically but performance wise), I fear you are using a dated system (think you're running win 98 ?), mates have had systems so old that my mobile phone had bigger drives and memory than they're systems did lol, and I remember they were burning a disk once, but had the other CD drive drawer open, I feared they may break it so said about closing it, so they did, and doing just that was enough to corrupt the burn almost instantly, if you want to reply with some system details, eg CPU, RAM etc, then we can advise some more.

Thanks for the reply. System details: Asrock 2core 2.66ghz; 4gb pc2-6400 memory; AC_FRZ_7P CPU; Geforce 7300 LE graphics card. Using windows 7 ultimate. Hope this is what you are looking for. If you need more info, please ask. I only mentioned erasing discs, but just to know, eg: can I move files to different drives, work on other documents, that kind of thing as well as erasing or burning a disc. I wouldn't think I could use the drive the disc is burning info from, but other drives. (Forgot to mention that in my original post). Hope I have explained this properly, Again, if you need more info, please ask. Thanks for the help. hedley

Yes thats exactly what I needed, it's more powerful than I feared, and with 4gig of ram there is no reason (that I can think of) that would stop you from doing this, BUT, the only way to know is to try, there is no technical reason for it to not do this (that come to mind anyway), the only thing I can think of that could cause a problem is if the system is running maxed out (eg CPU at 100%), I've seen burns on weak systems fail just because an empty optical drive drawer was closed, but with 4gig of ram you should be fine, if you do get failed burns, then just ease up on any intensive things you're doing until the burn is complete, hope this helps.

Thanks for the reply. I've never been sure whether to use the pc for other things or not, so I'll give it a go and see what happens. Thanks for the help, much appreciated, as always. hedley

Yeah you can do surfing or anything pretty much, I always have, and as long as it's not maxing out the CPU it should be fine.