Re: After a few years, my CDRs skip. What to do?

mcdonaldREMOVE TO ACTUALLY REACH ME wrote:
Norman Schwartz wrote:
"Brendan R. Wehrung" <ck183@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

I've always burned my CDRs at a relatively slow speed. I've had
none (that I know of) go bad. I have had mismatches of older
media, old in age and slow in max speed (eg 16x burned in max 52x
burner) that resulted in failures, which I recognized right away.

This is with an internal CD-R drive/burner? I thought they all (like
mine) will automatically pick a max speed which is consistent with
the nature of the CD-R blank being used.

Not true. My Plextor drive and NEro software will try to write
onto Taiyo Yuden 8x DVD disks at 12x. This simply fails. I have
to tell it manually. Note the "DVD".


I've never had a disk fail, ever, so far, except those. However,
I do write everything two different brands of DVD or one DVD and
one CD, one a Taiyo Yuden DVD.

Note that DVDs don't have the "surface" problems that CDs do
since they are a sandwich of two thick plastic sheets and
the writable layer is sandwiched in between.

DVDs might be an entirely different ball game. The Nero installed in one of
my PCs doesn't even do DVDs, so where's there the comparison to be made?
I'll have to look into why the Philips (?) DVD drive which came installed in
a different Dell PC fails to succeed in burning any Sony DVD+R I have, but
works well with other brands. The "RecordNow!" software for burning both DVD
and CDs came installed in this Dell PC came with a disc, RecordNow7.1 LE.

Doug McDonald


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