Okay I’ve come across a reoccurring problem that probably won't be so easy to solve this time. Well it was occurring on my old CPU which I took the burner [Creative DVDRW DR8420E] from also. Whenever I make a DVD it: leads in, writes, and everything just fine but when it leads out it has an error, [lead out process failed]. It seems to do that with all DVDs and I’ve only burned one DVD so far where it hasn’t had that error. I used Nero Premium 7 and 8x speed with TDK DVDs (which support up to 8x) and Maxtor DVD-RW 4x. The resulting DVDs work fine, but have long seek times at points but the data seems to be intact, and can be usable [but annoying to use because of long seek times].
It seems to burn CDs flawlessly and play both CD and DVDs (which I didn’t burn) flawlessly. Anyone know of a possible cause or solution? I know creative is great at making sound cards but not the best at making optical drives. I haven’t burned more then 10 DVD/CDs from this thing yet; tough I’ve had it for like 2 years. Should I just go buy a better brand DVD burner?
I have the latest firmware. I got more then enough HD space to burn DVD’s/CDs. 150+ GIGs free ATM. The only one that burned well was below 2 Gigs, all “failed” ones were above maybe worth noting… I’m not sure…
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