I got a Creative cd burner a couple of months ago and experienced similar problems.. I also had the burner set up as Secondary Slave to another CD Rom drive.. After much frustration with the NERO BURNING software I replaced it with Adaptec Burning software... All problems have disappeared.. It sometimes helps also to cut your burning speed in half.. Good Luck.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pamela Leming" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 6:43 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] Burning CD's > I'm having a problem burning CDs. I have a Packard Bell Intel Pentium MMX 200 > MHz system with 96 MB RAM. I have one 4 GB HD partitioned into two 2GB > partitions. Each partition has about 600 MB free space. I have a 40x CDROM > and a Creative CD-RW RW6424E CD writer as a slave to the 40x drive. I use Nero > Burning CD software, recently upgraded to version 5. > > I've read through the archives here and have tried all the advice I could find. > I've closed down all running programs, turned off screen saver, made sure no > power-saving features of hard drive and monitor were running, turned off virus > scanning program, etc. However, I'm still having problems. When I first got > the drive less than a year ago, I would run into occasional problems creating > copying or writing to a new CD (write errors > , buffer overrun, etc). I would > usually get one of those per session, and chalked it up to a bad disc. I don't > use the drive very often...since buying it maybe 9 months ago, I've used it to > burn maybe 25 CDs. However, lately, I can't get it to finish the process at > all. > > I always used "on the fly" method to make new CD, but after getting errors on > 3 or 4 tries, I finally created an image and used "burn image". The image gets > created just fine, but the burn process stops anywhere from 1% to 15% of the way > through the creation of the new CD. The only error message I get is the "write > error" message. I went through a whole box of 10 CDs and never got ONE to work. > > I've had these problems using both version 4 and version 5 of the software. > When I upgraded to the version 5 of Nero, the wizard did suggest that both of > my drives were on the same bus and, to avoid buffer overruns, to corr > ect that. > Is that because I have the burner as a slave to the other? If so, I would think > that creating an image would eliminate the first drive and it wouldn't figure > into the picture?? Even using the image I still get write errors and the burn > process stops. > > The very last time (and using my LAST CD), I got through about 15% of the > process and accidentally bumped my mouse. The process IMMEDIATELY stopped and I > got the write error. Is the process really that sensitive to something else > running in the background, even a mouse move? > > Any help or info would be greatly appreciated. > > Pam > [log in to unmask] > > Visit our website regularly for FAQs, > articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more > http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering special "Free-After-Rebate" Software specials in conjunction with Beyond.com. We have new offers all the time!!! http://nospin.com/promotions