CD-R verify errors

I've lately been having about a 25% success rate burning data CDs--more
often than not, although the CD burning process says it completes
successfully, I immediately get read errors on the disc. I'm using Nero
5.5, which came bundled with my MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I
use Nero's "Verify Written Data" feature to test whether the CD creation
succeeded.

The rest of my system specs a
Athlon XP1800+, 512MB DDR333, Win2K Pro SP4

The discs are from a TDK 100-pack (and they haven't seemed to cause
trouble in my work machine and my laptop). Dropping CD recording speeds
doesn't seem to help--I've had read errors when burning as low as 8X.

What's frustrating is that I just bought my current drive a month or two
ago to replace one that flaked out with similar problems (although it
often failed during the write process with a "track following error").

The fact that this new drive is acting up made me wonder if I have some
other system stability problem. I ran memtest86 for a few hours with no
trouble and now I'm about an hour and a half into Prime95 with no
trouble there either.

Any other ideas to try?

TIA

Yeremein wrote:

I've lately been having about a 25% success rate burning data CDs--more
often than not, although the CD burning process says it completes
successfully, I immediately get read errors on the disc. I'm using Nero
5.5, which came bundled with my MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I
use Nero's "Verify Written Data" feature to test whether the CD creation
succeeded.

The rest of my system specs a
Athlon XP1800+, 512MB DDR333, Win2K Pro SP4

The discs are from a TDK 100-pack (and they haven't seemed to cause
trouble in my work machine and my laptop). Dropping CD recording speeds
doesn't seem to help--I've had read errors when burning as low as 8X.

What's frustrating is that I just bought my current drive a month or two
ago to replace one that flaked out with similar problems (although it
often failed during the write process with a "track following error").

The fact that this new drive is acting up made me wonder if I have some
other system stability problem. I ran memtest86 for a few hours with no
trouble and now I'm about an hour and a half into Prime95 with no
trouble there either.

Any other ideas to try?

TIA

Nothing that comes to mind. Barring early hardware failure, it sure
sounds like incompatibility among medium, drive and speed. Since you've
eliminated speed, I'd suggest trying other media.

Note that it is *not* that the blanks are 'bad', only that they're not
compatible with your drive. So they can easily work well in other
drives, but not in this one.

Mike
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 22:07:01 -0600, Yeremein
wrote:

Any other ideas to try?

See if there's a firmware upgrade for the burner? Couldn't hurt.

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Mike Richter wrote in message ...
Yeremein wrote:

I've lately been having about a 25% success rate burning data CDs--more
often than not, although the CD burning process says it completes
successfully, I immediately get read errors on the disc. I'm using Nero
5.5, which came bundled with my MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I
use Nero's "Verify Written Data" feature to test whether the CD creation
succeeded.

The rest of my system specs a
Athlon XP1800+, 512MB DDR333, Win2K Pro SP4

The discs are from a TDK 100-pack (and they haven't seemed to cause
trouble in my work machine and my laptop). Dropping CD recording speeds
doesn't seem to help--I've had read errors when burning as low as 8X.

What's frustrating is that I just bought my current drive a month or two
ago to replace one that flaked out with similar problems (although it
often failed during the write process with a "track following error").

The fact that this new drive is acting up made me wonder if I have some
other system stability problem. I ran memtest86 for a few hours with no
trouble and now I'm about an hour and a half into Prime95 with no
trouble there either.

Any other ideas to try?

TIA

Nothing that comes to mind. Barring early hardware failure, it sure
sounds like incompatibility among medium, drive and speed. Since you've
eliminated speed, I'd suggest trying other media.

Note that it is *not* that the blanks are 'bad', only that they're not
compatible with your drive. So they can easily work well in other
drives, but not in this one.

Mike

I am using the latest Nero 6 version.

Where do I enable verify option before I do a diskcopy in Nero program?


Thanks.


Bun Mui

Yeremein wrote:
I've lately been having about a 25% success rate burning data CDs--more
often than not, although the CD burning process says it completes
successfully, I immediately get read errors on the disc. I'm using Nero
5.5, which came bundled with my MSI X48 CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I
use Nero's "Verify Written Data" feature to test whether the CD creation
succeeded.

Are you getting read errors -- unreadable sectors -- or mismatched data
identified during the "verify" pass?

If the former, there's something wrong with your drive or media. If the
latter, try swapping out your IDE cable, or put it on the other channel.
Sometimes adding a second device to a previously happy (but marginal)
cable will cause problems.

The fact that this new drive is acting up made me wonder if I have some
other system stability problem. I ran memtest86 for a few hours with no
trouble and now I'm about an hour and a half into Prime95 with no
trouble there either.

Good place to start, but if it's in the I/O transfer they won't spot the
problem. Make sure you replace the cable with the same type you already
have.

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