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I was doing a favour for a mate copying some CD's and it ****ed up several discs halfway through the copy..... :cry:
Can anyone tell me why it is doing this, is it likely to be my PC or the cd's?
I dont think its the cds....but not sure on this type of thing....
R they all the same brand/ model (cds I mean)?
Sometimes a reboot helps.. has the system can get cloghed up 8ram usage and stuff)...
is yer HD defraged regularly?
do U have enoght disk space?
R u using max rec/ read spead?
these r some things that u should have a look into...
let us know,
Z
cheers Z mate, they are all the same brand cd's, im writing at max speed...and i think my disk isnt full.....i'll let ya know how im doing when i go to copy again....cheers mate
hmmm.. i used to have this problem. it turned out to be the cd burner...
Yeah, the bad thing is I wasted a load of Iain Cross's CD's! :cry:
He ain't gonna be happy..... :(
If this is happening a lot and nonne of the above is the prob then 4 sure u got a knackerd CD Burner!
Z
Get yourself a plextor burner mate. I used to have a yamaha and the thing was toasting cd's for fun. In the end it just gave up so i got myself a top of the range plextor. Not only is it shit fast, i can burn anything at 48 speed(even 4 speed cdr's) and they work perfectly, and the thing has never corrupted a cd.
Can you give me some more details as to where to find one?
Any info much appreciated IQ... :D
You can find the plextor drives all over the place as they are rated the best on the market. If your getting just a cd writer, then dont go cheap and get a really good one, and make sure it has burnproof. Here is their dvd/cd burner, http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=45468, this is the one i have, http://www.plextor.be/english/products/pxw482448A.html,
Just have a look through the plextor website and find the one you want,
http://www.plextor.be/default.asp
:thumbs up:
Just do it slower
make sure in your Hardware Setting (Device manager) that all your IDE phripheral's are set to DMA (click the box) your Hard drive & all CD rom's should be set to this.
if you nead a new CD writer get a Lite On 48 x 12 x48 they only cost £38.
might sound cheep and nasty, NO FRILLS but take my work for it, instead of spending £100 on a plextor, get this.
it looks a bit box'y like a volvo, but it does the job realy well,,, i can burn a full disk in 3mins, its buffer under run aswell, so you can do other stuff on ya comp..
i use nero.
if its ****ing up try clicking "determin maximum speed"... and the software will test the max speed you can write at.
like a i said ENABLE "DMA" on your hard drive & what ever CD roms / dvd roms you have,,,, this makes a helluva differance.