OK, thank you. That's what I suspected. I just needed my theory to be
confirmed.
That explains a lot. So, then that leads me to my second question.
Say that I have about 4 gigs of data I want to back up. Would it be better
to buy some single layer dvd's to use than trying to keep attempting this on
dule? It's not ruinning the dvd's it's just not working. Now here is the
other even more bazaar parta all of this. When I tried with a dule layer
dvd to burn that stuff from last night, which as I said, I'm doing about 4
point something odd gb of data. Basically it's audio mp3's that I'm burning
to this dvd. At any rate, I just went into nero and said dvd for the type
media, then in the list view of formats, I did dvd iso. then I just
selected all the files and folders to be burned, went over to the dvd payne
in burning rom, hit f2 on the title of the disc, and renamed the volume
label to something more rellavant, then just hit ctrl+B to burn, like
always, shift tabbed back to the burn button, and whacked the space bar. No
different than normal. Anyway, getting back to the odd part of this... on
this desktop audio production machine running xp Pro SP3, it won't work with
the new internal drive, nor will it work with my external USB dule layer DVD
burner. Nowever, on my HP laptop which has Vista Home Premium, and an
internal, obviously, dule layer CD/DVD dule layer burner with lightscribe, I
did the exact same procedure, might! I add, on the exact! same blank DVD,
and guess what! It worked flawlessly! first try. Again, this is Nero
version 7 Ultra. Should I try to find a copy of Nero that is a more recent
verasion? I think I may have one laying around here somewhere stashed away
on a rom somewhere. It's not that big of a deal. I don't mind using the
laptop to burn dvd's, but being this drive is so top of the line that I just
got... it won't do blueray, but that's about the only! thing it won't do.
Oh, btw, I don't believe this matters, but, I'm burning at 8X speed when I
try with this new drive on my desktop. These discs are capable of burning
upto 8X times. 8X is their max. My DVD drive on my laptop hardware wize is
only capable of going up to 4X. So, I'm a little bit batheled. The options
I get in the desktop machine are 8X, 6X, 4X, and 1X. I believe the box tjo
choose maximum speed is unchecked on the laptop. NOt sure about the desktop
but I kind a remember it being unchecked. I can look though and confirm
that if you all would like me to. This is driving me crazy though trying to
figure out what the heck the deal is. I mean really, what gives! I think
my next attempt'll be trying to burn atta slower speed, maybe bump it down
to 4. It doesn't make a coaster when it fails the burn, it just dosn't
write anything. Basically it goes to 1%, then just kind a sits there and
does nothing, then after about a minute in a half to 2, max, it spits out
the disk and says aborted burn process failed.
I got a gig and a half of PC-4200 DDR2 ram in this desktop, so there is
plenty! of memory for the cache buffer size, which I've not modified the
settings for, in Nero at all. Everything's still at Nero's barebone
defaults. Needless to say, this has gotten me quite stumped.
Yall got any more ideas? I agree with what just was said. I don't think
the single layer stuff cna be put on dule, but if that really be the case,
then, why did it work on the laptop, but not the desktop. See, that's
what's throwing me for a curve. I could see that as being accurate if it
didn't burn with either system, but...
I don't discount anything, but... yeah... who knows.
Chris.
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