Re: unreliable burning

another disc failed after the updates. switched to tesco own brand - I live
in the UK.

tescos fine in my pc. now my panasonic hd/dvd recorder failed to finalize
my disc after recording 4 hours of tv and my relabelling afterwards. dman.

"ian lincoln" <dragonslayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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liteon themselves gave me a link to a firmware update. i also reinstalled
nero burn and installed the updates. to be doubly sure i also changed
brands again. First disk came out fine. also a 4x burn was taking half
an hour and so was an 8x. now a x4 burn takes 15-20mins.

Finally liteon gave me an address to 'smart burn' util. this identifes
the characteristics of the discs you are using. nominal capacity reads
only 4.38gb. speed of burn was only x4.

Iwas burning froma recently defragged disk drive to the dvd drive. simply
using the 'create a data dvd'. mostly jpegs and word files. Basically
backing up my drive. Have been tidying up my drive and roughly dividing
it up into groups of 4.5gb. once done and had a successfully verified
disk i have then copied to my external hard drive. i haven't turned it
off though. Its permanently connected and switched on. There is now no
data on my main drive and only programs. Freed up more than 60gb by
deleting duplicate files and just plain crap. The other 35gb is now
backed up on both dvds and external drive.

"Bob Davis" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"ian lincoln" <dragonslayer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i have tried two no name brands and tdk-r. i have a liteon 16x burner.
i have 8x disks but have beenburning at 4x to increase reliability. The
last few disks have managed to burn successfully but failed verification.
anyone have a trusted brand of disk or have a problem with liteon drives?

I have a Lite-On 1693 in this desktop and an 852 in my notebook, and have
burned about 500 DVD's in the past few months using Taiyo Yuden DVD+R's.
Not one has been a coaster, and all have tested with <3 PIF errors using
Nero's DVD Speed Disk-quality test or KProbe. Some of these were Sony
branded, but lately I've been buying only Taiyo Yuden from either
www.rima.com or www.supermediastore.com.

I have used RICOHJPN, Sony D11, and CMC and had mixed results. The Sony
D11's were very good, almost as good as the TY's, but CMC has not tested
well at full burn speed (16x)--better if slowed down.

Beware of fake TY's, and buy only from a known good source.




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