Nero or CD drive,that is the question

[john ranger]

Hi guys
I'm using a Nero to burn cds and I have a stupid question here.

It will not burn a 12x cd only 4x.That would be because of my cd drive right?and not thew nero?

I'm not sure,check the attachement I get this error when I use the 12x disk,the other disks are fine.
Thanks
John

[bailey]

it will only burn at the speed of the burner and then only as fast as the meaduam you are burning too.

looks like that error is for no drive selectted

[Dan]

I haven't used Nero much, but there should be a setting for the speed of the drive you are using and the disc...although I can't imagine why Nero couldn't detect one or the other.
Look around in the settings for disc and default drive speed...what speed is the drive you have installed? What drive are you using? like bailey mentioned, you are limited by your drive speed first...then the disc speed. (if the drive speed is less than the disc it can and will only record at that drive speed) let us know....

[john ranger]

Hi Dan
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (build 2600) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1200 megahertz AMD Duron
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
64 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V ACPI BIOS Revision 1011 04/23/2002
Drives Memory Modules c,d
40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
32.07 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B
MITSUMI CR-4804TE [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

WDC WD400BB-00DEA0 [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0 896 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM 1' has 128 MB
Slot 'DIMM 2' has 256 MB
Slot 'DIMM 3' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 40.01 GB 32.07 GB free
_____________


The problem is that I can't write or erace anything when I use the disk in the attachement.The other disks work fine,just wondering why.

opps goof up check here
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=70935

[john ranger]

Originally posted by john ranger Hi Dan Operating System System Model Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (build 2600) No details available Processor a Main Circuit Board b 1200 megahertz AMD Duron 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 64 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. REV 1.xx Bus Clock: 100 megahertz BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V ACPI BIOS Revision 1011 04/23/2002 Drives Memory Modules c,d 40.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity 32.07 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B MITSUMI CR-4804TE [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] WDC WD400BB-00DEA0 [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0 896 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'DIMM 1' has 128 MB Slot 'DIMM 2' has 256 MB Slot 'DIMM 3' has 512 MB Local Drive Volumes c: (on drive 0) 40.01 GB 32.07 GB free _____________ The problem is that I can't write or erace anything when I use the disk in the attachement.The other disks work fine,just wondering why. opps goof up check here http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=70935

[Dan]

are the other discs you mention (that work ok) cdrw, or are they just cdr?
and have you formatted the disc that won't work? in order to write to and erase cdrw (I believe it's called something like "open session") in easycd creater on my machine (plextor 241040) the cdrw has to be formatted. I believe in Nero the part of the program that will format the cdrw is called InCD....

[john ranger]

are the other discs you mention (that work ok) cdrw, or are they just cdr?

They are cdrw disks

The disks that do not work were already made by another computer,maybe that's why it don't work.Could be the other computer formatted the disk huh?

[bailey]

I have read that there are some brands of cd's that don't work good in some brands of recorders.

there is no such thing as any cdr or cdrw that will run perfectly in all recorders.

[Dan]

Hi John,
it very well could be that the disc, being formatted on another machine and maybe even another program, is the problem.
you can reformat the disc in Nero's InCD program...you might be able to use it then.
you could also try downloading UDF Reader, it might solve your problem, or other similar problems...get it here:
http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/downloa...0-9497911.html

[glc]

That Mitsumi is a 4x burner - you can use 48x speed blanks and it can still only burn at 4x.