CDR Blank Questions

[Werty]

is there a software or a way which i can test the reliability of the recording surface of a blank cdr while not actualy writing on its surface(meaning i could still use it afterwards)?

im asking this for the reason that i have bought a pack of 50pcs no-name cdrblanks & out of 15 recordings, only 1 was correctly written. and i have bought this same blanks before and used them without problems. i tried returning it to the supplier and still they gave me the same replacement blanks & i stil got the same unrealiable error after my recording. the problem is that nero & any other writing softwares can successfully write onto the disk @ 4-16x speed. but when u check the integrity of the written data by actually copying the contents to harddisk, it gives you a whole lot of error readings

any help (aside from returning it to supplier) would do... thanks..

 

[Matthias99]

There's no way to "check" that it will properly hold data without actually *writing* data to it and then trying to read it back. With a CD-RW, you could do such a test (since you could erase the test data afterwards), but not with a CD-R.

I'm gonna guess you got some bad blanks. It happens (though less than it used to), especially when buying cheap no-name ones.

 

[Werty]

arent the store shoudl be reliable for this? but how would i do it when they imposed a NO RETURN policy? this is such a waste of money & time recoding into it...

 

[MrChad]

That's why you should go with a reliable brand (such as Japanese Fujifilm) rather than a no-name. Honestly, CDRs are so dirt cheap nowadays that it really doesn't make sense to go with a generic brand.