4 bad burns in a row...

[Wag]

I have hundreds of GBs of free space, and yes I know here people go dumping on me for using RITEK but that wouldn't explain why I burned 46 out of 46 straight PERFECT burns and then all of a sudden they're all burning bad (on two seperate drives no less). I could understand one or two different burns every once in a while, but every single disc bad- that makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[robisbell]

okay, I asked twice for specific info, a off hand "I have hundreds of GBs of free space" does not answer my question. I was trying to help you, but without knowing the details i can't.

 

[Quiksilver]

If he has 100+ GB of hard drive space it doesn't matter what the exact number is. Leave the guy alone, hes already tried audio cds, normals dvds, different burning software, different burners, and lastly it worked normally previously. So stop questioning him about the lack of specifics he is providing especially one he has only one option left to try and that is too try a different brand of media. If then it still doesn't work you may continue but at this point I have to say the problem is the media especially when everything else works.

 

[robisbell]

well, it does, if he has quite a few autostart items plus the swap file and good knows what else. I never assume, i get the facts first.
any good tech gets all the facts before jumping the gun.

 

[Quiksilver]

Your also missing the point. Why? Well, if it was a hard drive space problem the burn wouldn't even finish burning instead he would be presented with a burning process failed notice and a nice detailed log of where it went wrong, not simply burn what it was able to finish which would result in a bad burn. That isn't his case he is completing the burns and finishing successfully but the burned disc doesn't want to read in any pc or dvd-player; meaning the burn it self is bad. The facts were presented before hand in his original post and those after.

It rules out hard drive space as a problem and as you say any "good tech" would know this.

 

[robisbell]

well, then you do know if the HDD has inadequate space, but just enough that you can get bad burn jobs.

 

[Captante]

If you've eliminated the drive itself, the media & the burning software then you have to start looking at other possible causes which unfortunately means you need to troubleshoot your entire system to find the problem ... start by doing a complete uninstall of all DVD-burning software on your PC, then manually delete all related directories & (if you feel comfortable doing so) registry keys, then re-install Nero only, patch to most current version & try again.

Other possible issues are corrupted/damaged Windows system files or a severely fragmented hard-drive ... run a full check-disk, then defrag your drives & try again ... worst-case you might find that you'll need to format & re-install Windows to fix the problem.


Edit: Since I see you are running Vista, my guess is you are correct about an update hosing things on you. I've actually had Vista chipset driver updates cause all kinds of problems on my primary PC including having a software RAID array damaged & losing the ability to burn any type of optical disk ... recently I've gone back to XP Pro for just about everthing.

 

[Wag]

Well get this guys, I had an old G4 Power Mac Sawtooth 733 sitting around here I never use, I installed the old NEC IDE 16x RW burner I removed and the Ritek DL media is burning no problem on the Mac, this is media out of the freshly opened pack of discs- so it definitely isn't the discs, or the drives. So I definitely wasted money on a new drive.

 

[robisbell]

liek I said, i did not think it was the drives or the media, I think there is an issue with the drive space or something.

 

[robisbell]

download CCleaner and run the cleaner option, and then run the registry option till it finds no errors.