Re: DVD burner misery

johannes wrote:



7 wrote:

7 wrote:

johannes wrote:

I have now gone through four DVD without any success. The burner goes
through the following step:

1. Writing to cache
2. Checking write speed
3. Simulation
4. Writing
5. Verification (failed)

The speed check just misses 8x speed, so it is set to 4x speed. Hard
drive was defragged before writing. It did actually burn one DVD
successfully, but the next four all failed!


Several options:

1. Use a distro like puppy linux - it boots off DVD and writes back
anything that needs to be written to DVD.

2. Boot off a distro like DSL to RAM and do your DVD burning with that.

3.

Opps! Butter fingers!

3. Boot of USB stick with things like DSL, puppy and use the DVD
burners in there. http://www.pendrivelinux.com

4. If you have a spare 4 gig disk, install a livecd like knoppix,
mepis, ubuntu, slax on that and then do burning to heart's content
using K3B and other CD-writing software.

Use google for anything you need to understand / learn

http://www.livecdlist.com

Not sure what you're on about in relation to the burner problem. The
problem is likely be a hardware related. Do you want to travel past
the moon when you need a pint of milk?


Your description also sounds like software related
like malware hogging resources.
So using different software could fix it.
If the drive is 2 - 3 years old, it could also be laser diode - they
don't last that long. If its cheap enough to buy a new 18x DVD burner
for under 20 quid - http://www.ebuyer.com

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