how does overburning work?

[RayEarth]

I enabled the overburn feature using nti cd-maker 5.1.29 and tried the same with nero ver.5.5.9.14 but everytime I tried to burn the cd tray pops out saying insufficient space. I'm trying to write 81mins of data using a 80min cd-rw. My burner is a plextor 48/24/48. Also if I use nti cd-maker, sometimes after the burn, everytimes slows down so much the OS isn't even operational, anyone have this problem with nti cd-maker under winxp pro using this plextor model?

 

[Mavrick007]

Overburning really depends on how much "extra" you plan on putting on the cd and it can differ from cd media to cd media.
I just burned a 74 min cdrw the other day with 75min 19secs of data (on my Liteon 40x), but some cds may not let you go over 1 extra minute. It also differs from burning program to program because some may take more space to close a session and write the table of contents than other programs do, thereby giving you less space on the cd than you might have been able to put on it with a different program. Some burners just don't allow overburning even if the software says it supports it, or it may not handle overburning as well as other burners.

I would experiment with a cdrw at first and then see what you can do with your burner using different programs. Nero seems to overburn for me quite well, and I would also look at Cdrwin as well, which also works well.

 

[Doh!]

Make sure you have chosen "No Multisession" and "Disc-At-Once".