Nero says "burn completed successfully" but disc still recognized as blank with Sony CDRW

[MogyBear]

I recently installed a Sony CDRW (forget model) in a guy's computer. It was reading CD's fine, so I called it good. He called me back and says that with Nero, it says the burn completes successfully, but when trying to read the CD in a standalone CD player or in the drive itself, it does not play.

Things he has done:
-Burned at a slower write speed

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[monzie]

Have you tried writing the CD to Nero's 'Image Drive'..then mounted the image?
Have you tried 'Simulation' mode..any errors?

Was the cd burnt from a downloaded .cue? If so a common trick (by pranksters) is to change the burn mode....open the .cue with Notepad and check/change the mode.

 

[Steve]

Has the disc been finalized in Nero? That has to be set before burn.

 

[helpmeout]

I had a burner that came with Nero, but wanted a faster drive. I installed a Sony CRX230A-U, and it just wouldn't work with the Nero program. I uninstalled Nero, installed the B's Gold that came with the Sony and I have no more problems.

 

[MogyBear]

Did nero say that the burn sucesfully completed?

 

[MogyBear]

Originally posted by: helpmeout
I had a burner that came with Nero, but wanted a faster drive. I installed a Sony CRX230A-U, and it just wouldn't work with the Nero program. I uninstalled Nero, installed the B's Gold that came with the Sony and I have no more problems.

Did nero say that the burn had successfully completed?

 

[helpmeout]

I can't give you a definate answer on that, but it was making coasters. It did burn twice (to CD-RW, at lowest speed), never burned to a CD-R.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: helpmeout
I had a burner that came with Nero, but wanted a faster drive. I installed a Sony CRX230A-U, and it just wouldn't work with the Nero program. I uninstalled Nero, installed the B's Gold that came with the Sony and I have no more problems.

The reason for that is that the Nero that came bundled with your drive was only meant to work with that drive.

 

[helpmeout]

I had thought of that I think?? Pretty soon babies will be born with "OEM version" stamped on the forehead.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

I have gotten such coasters (or rather "phantom" recordings) in the past. Basically the program (Nero, CDRWIN etc) says it's successful, but when you try to read the CDR under Explorer it shows zero files. Under Properties it does indicate that the CDR has the correct amount of used bytes. Also, the CDR's volume label always defaults to something like "CD" IIRC. Some web articles blame it on corrupted ISO images but this has also happened with "direct" burns I made i.e. backing up files on my HDD. Another thing is that it happened with two different rigs and burners I had, one a HP, the other Samsung, using several types of CDR brands.

Weird.

 

[MogyBear]

I am talking about burning a music CD. I guess it does make an image file on the hard drive before burning, so I suppose that's the problem. I guess I'll try using some different burning software on his computer.

 

[MogyBear]

Problem solved. The guy was telling it to write an image, instead of writing to the CD!