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Thread ID: 97711 2009-02-24 19:42:00 ***Probs With Sonic Now/CD-DVD Rewriter*** Goldie6001 (14650) Press F1
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751149 2009-02-24 19:42:00 Dear Tech Geniuses!

I am but a humble Englishman with a problem!

Recently my lite-on DVD Writer Drive or Sonic Record Now, Windows Medi Player Burn Facility or/and iTunes Burner has developed a fault.

Here's the problem in "brief"

Recently when I burn audio CDs the quality on some tracks is skippy and distorted, but the tracks have been written. Even more recently, when I try to burn from Windows Media Player, iTunes or using Sonic Record Now - the progress bar shoots to the end, the drive makes a lot of noise and either eventually says it's burned for me, or ejects and says "an unknown error occured" - don't you just love them?

Weird this though - when I try to burn DVDs from .avi files using Sonic's My DVD Creator - the same drive works fine! The last one I burned worked great on the telly and the progress bar and noise output from the drive was normal.

The last 4 CD's (audio) I've written will not be recognised by the computor and play poorly in CD players.

What I need to know is - is it the drive or (I find this unlikely) all three burning programs?

If it's the drive, should I risk replacing it?

Please assist me in my woe!

Goldie
Goldie6001 (14650)
751150 2009-02-24 21:34:00 Have you tried lowering the burn speed?

It may be that Sonic's My DVD creator is burning at a slower speed, and therefore not throwing up errors.

Blam
Blam (54)
751151 2009-02-25 00:06:00 Thanks for the tip - I did try that though. The discs from a big supermarket chain in the UK, Tesco are 52x speed - so I lowered it to 40x.

The same thing happens using all programs - I either get no write or what is written is distorted and will not even register when I try to play it back on the PC or CD players...
Goldie6001 (14650)
751152 2009-02-25 02:24:00 Download IMGBurn or BurnawareFree and see if it still happens Blam (54)
751153 2009-02-27 05:04:00 bump Bantu (52)
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