The best solution in my opinion and to be relax is to do 3 things :

1. Have a big HD 10 -13 .. with a free space in it .. so it will be as a
virtual memory.

2. its better to use first the CDR/W .. so when any errors happened .. you
can easily choose to quick erase it . and when success with you .. so you
can use the blank CD/R

3.Use SCSI link between the motherboard and the cdrw and not the IDE link.

hope this can be help ..

Bassem Fahmy
Cairo - Egypt
----- Original Message -----
> 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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