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
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