I ran into a problem with Nero not supporting an replacement DVD drive that I plugged in to an older PC. Worked fine with the old CD burner, but not the new DVD RW drive.
OK, it was an old version of Nero (version 4, IIRC), and I was able to find a free copy of a somewhat later version (6.6) on a magazine cover CD that supports the drive and does the necessary. I found that Nero does publish a list of supported drives for its products.
I still use ImgBurn a lot when working with ISO images and I have no problem with coexistence.
Incidentally, I still find that make and model of CD / DVD burner can have an effect on whether a drive works with a given software package, even when it "shouldn't" make any difference. For example, I have a Pioneer and a Sony DVD-RW in one PC. Both work fine with ImgBurn, but only the Sony works with Nero. The Pioneer seems to work, but never actually writes anything. Fortunately, it doesn't render the CD / DVD unusable, so no harm done (apart from wasted time).
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