[RESOLVED] Burning Trouble

[Ken1915]

I have a HP Cd-Writer Plus 8100 running Adaptec Easy Creator 3.5c, And I have nothing but problems Burning Music CD's. I get skips, I get, where it starts a song then stops and starts the song over again. I never know when it will work great or when I start producing Coasters. I stopped using Adaptec to copy the song's to my HD and started using "Windac". I know the songs are being copied to the HD with no problems. But Adaptec has trouble burning the CD.

I defrag everytime before burning! I have plenty of ram,(128)Speed (400) and HD space (30gig).
Could it be the CD Brand?,or anything else Im not aware of. Or should I try another burner program? Nero, WinCD, ???
Has anyone else had this problem??
Its driving me nuts!!

Thanks
Ken

[jastan]

Hi ken, from the way U describe, seems like the CD Player is activated. If so, turn it off 1st before proceed with "burning". My advice is this, since U got so much disc space, partition your hard disc into smaller capacity (eg 4GB) drives and do an image copy first. Might take a longer time but less trouble. U can also check out Adaptec's web site (http://www.adaptec.com) for any patch files. The last date build for 3.5c is 23/9/99.

Hope it'll brighten up your day.
Regards

[Ken1915]

Thanks for you help..But I dont want to copy the whole Music Cd, just one or two songs from each one. Disk Copy copies the whole CD. Not what I want to do.

I dont have the player going when I copy, Nothing is running when I burn. But it still gives me Trouble!

Going to have to ruin more Cd's trying to figure it out.

[Ken1915]

And I have downloaded the patches, and partitioned my drive's into smaller chunks.
everthing is clean and new (reformated everthing)

Wish someone would get a brain storm and invent better software and hardware for us!
Adaptec people may be smart, but they are surely no help!
Thanks

[houseisland]

Do the failures happen with the same brand of CD media? Have you tried different brands? For some "name brands," the failure rate can be as high as 50% of the box or higher. Lots of coasters!

Since I started using Maxell with my HP 7200i, I have had only one failed burn.