Weird CD Burns Verify Good, but Read with Errors!!!

[Pat]

ASUS Motherboard with 1GB memory and over 350GB of disc space.

I have a Pioneer A05 CD/DVD burner (DMA is On) and an external Plextor CD
burner on USB. DVDs burn great on the Pioneer. Unfortunatley, burning CDs is
marginal in that the the CD created may not be readable.

I've used NERO 5.5, NERO 6, RECORD NOW, and COPYTODVD. I've used two CD
burners, the internal Pioneer and external Plextor. I am burning data from
the hard drive to CD-R.

Also, I do a verify after the burn, and the verify is good. I've tried
different CD-R media, too.


What does all this have in common? Is there one Windows XP component that is
causing corruption for just the CD burns.

Could it be a driver that is the problem? Perhaps an application I loaded
has changed Windows XP to cause this problem. Remember that DVDs work!


Any ideas?

 

[Lior]

I have a similar problem.
Try those CDRs on other systems, maybe they work there and
they are good and the problem is in your system.
Try the burning program alcohol 120, its good.
Please tell me if you find anything out especially if
you fix it.

Lior.

 

[Quaoar]

ASUS Motherboard with 1GB memory and over 350GB of disc space.

I have a Pioneer A05 CD/DVD burner (DMA is On) and an external
Plextor CD burner on USB. DVDs burn great on the Pioneer.
Unfortunatley, burning CDs is marginal in that the the CD created may
not be readable.

I've used NERO 5.5, NERO 6, RECORD NOW, and COPYTODVD. I've used two
CD burners, the internal Pioneer and external Plextor. I am burning
data from the hard drive to CD-R.

Also, I do a verify after the burn, and the verify is good. I've tried
different CD-R media, too.


What does all this have in common? Is there one Windows XP component
that is causing corruption for just the CD burns.

Could it be a driver that is the problem? Perhaps an application I
loaded has changed Windows XP to cause this problem. Remember that
DVDs work!


Any ideas?

I always suspect the media first. Try burning at a reduced speed, 4x,
or 8x, and see if the reliability improves. When the burn starts, do
not do anything else at all. No mouse, keyboard, other programs, etc.
See if that helps.

Q