Needs some help with CD-R.

Mong0

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I have just upgraded my machine from an Asus K7M 700 AMD. To an Asus A7M 1.4Ghz AMD, and now for some unknown reason my 700 MB CD-R's are showing up as 648 MB. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but there are a couple of things I need to burn that require all of that space. So if anyone has any clues I would love to hear them. And yes I just flashed the firmware to the last revisioon found on Acers website. Oh yeah BTW the CDRW is an ACER 1832a.
 

IamDavid

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Have you tried to burn them anyway? Mine always show up as 650 yet I can always fit 700 on them.

BTW: I use Nero and CloneCD
 

GremlinHater

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Hmm, my system is different from yours, but I have 700MB disc's however the software only recognizes (nero) as 650MB, perhaps it's the software?

If anyone know a solution to my problem as well, give a holler.

Edit: Wow, n/m, IamDavid just said a consistency, so maybe it's a glitch in the software.
 

vampiro

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Go to the software makers homepage, and see if they have any patches to correct this. I once had something similar happen with Soundstream, and Adaptec had a patch that corrected it (the only time adaptec has ever helped me).
 

Mong0

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The problem is that I know the CD is 700 MB 80 min and it worked before. Yes this is Max Payne and I tried to overburn with clone cd and it puked at the end saying end of media found. Also windows is also telling me that the CD is 648MB I could have sworn that in my old system windows reported 700 mb free.
 

Mong0

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OK if anyone out there with a CDRW and a blank 80 minute cd could just stick it into your burner and tell me how much space windows explorer says you have I would be happy.

Thanks
 

gopunk

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if you use nero, go to file, preferences, advanced options, then do the whole overburn thing.
 

GremlinHater

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<< OK if anyone out there with a CDRW and a blank 80 minute cd could just stick it into your burner and tell me how much space windows explorer says you have I would be happy.

Thanks
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I have NEVER had my CD-RW tell me the availabe space, is this normal? It always has 0 and then if I burn something it says that amount that I burned. Used = 0, Free = 0. This is what confuses me when you say you use windows to view???