And I fucking hate it. I'm about to throw it out the window.
I'm trying to burn a file. A disc image, to be precise. I tried twice to burn it yesterday, one coaster, one success. I tried to make another copy today and was rewarded with 4 coasters. I've given up trying. Hopefully someone in the know can help me out. I saved this log from my most recent burning attempt.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
quote:Burn process started at 32x (4,800 KB/s)
Make sure you're using 32x discs. Some discs aren't built for the higher speeds, and won't get autodetected. Writing them at higher speeds will cause the write to fail. Try manually dropping the speed to 4x or 8x.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
I think all the disks I have are 52x.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Got an RW you can test with? Might save you some coasters, if nothing else.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
It might be due to 12 days straight of the Simpsons on Fox8 (cable channel in Australia) which played 12 days straight of the Simpsons during the Commonwealth Games) but I read that title as "Mr Burns Hates Me!"
My burner is annoying too - you go to burn something through windows - i.e. send to the "e: drive" and a window continually pops up saying it can't detect the correct media or something like that - and to please insert a disc even though there is a bloody disc there. So I have to go the long way and burn it via Nero.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Omega: Got an RW you can test with? Might save you some coasters, if nothing else.
RW??? what happened to ole Rutger Warrink? SP? He drew some nice ships.
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
ReWritable
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Hmm. Is the Disk Image copy protected? Or if you have any other programs running in your taskbar that eat up some RAM, that might cause the buffer to run out. Those are really the only causes I can think of, as those are the ones I usually run into. Most of the time my burner works like a charm.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
In my younger, crazier days I'd probably have created an ID called Topher's Burner and posted a thread called I Hate Topher.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Could it be the brand of disk used? Back when I first got a CD burner, my disks would almost always fail unless I used certan brands of disks.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
It never used to matter what brand of disc I used, it would always work fine. But lately its been persnickity about the DVDs I use so maybe its not liking the brand I have now... But I'm not getting the same error message as earlier when I was trying to burn DVDs.
And considering the nature and source of the image file, I would most definately say that it is not copy protected.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
pr0n!!! Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Have you tried cleaning the burner? You just might have a dust bunny in there screwing things up.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lee: pr0n!!!
Its not porn. Its a software package.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Right.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Seriously. MS Office, to be precise.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
I think I have had trouble copying MS Office before, could it be that office is the problem? You may have to image the disk instead of doing a straight copy. I can't remember the name of the programme my buddy used, but he used it to image a copy to his hd before he could make a copy of XP.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
That's the thing. I downloaded an image of Office, and it burned once but now I keep getting coasters.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
Well you can get burners pretty cheap now.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
a Good combo is Alcohol 120% and DaemonTools for Image burning and mounting. I use Alcohol to make an image, then mount it on DTools to make sure it's a good copy. Then I try burning it. Sometimes the image is just corrupted and it won't burn or run half the time.
Posted by Grokca (Member # 722) on :
No no no ,don't mix alcohol and daemon tools , you will get a nasty hangover. I recommend scotch and water.
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