Burner is burning me!!!

I have a Creative CDRW that seems to be having trouble reading CDs at times. It is writing fine, but even after it has written to a disk, it sometimes won't read the files it has just written - trying to re-burn brings up the old "This file already exists, would you like to......." :-\

Even autoplay CDs sometimes seem to spin up, then slow down, then spin up etc.. until they either read or not.

Anyone any ideas apart from turning it into a paper-weight????

Thanx
Dennis

 

In my past experience with mine, it is unfortunately fairly a common thing for a burner to not immediately read the files it has just written to a disk. Often you have to re-boot for it to do so.

If you have a regular CD ROM as well, put the disk in the regular CD ROM drive, & it will most likely read it, unless you have formatted the disk first, then only the burner would read it. Only CDRW disks can be formatted. CDR's cannot.

One other thing. If you are doing a multisession CD, & adding information to one that you've previously put info on, when you go to add the information, you must allow it to import the previous session, otherwise the previously burned info will not be readable by any device, but will still be recognized as being physically present if you try to replace it. It's a mystery to me why it can't open them, but will still tell you they are there if you try to replace them, but that's the way it is.

I had Adaptec software once. It was always causing trouble. I got rid of it & now use Nero & NTI. Both are quite stable, & I have very few read\write problems anymore. The only time I have serious problems now is if the disk itself has a bad spot. Using good quality media is important too. I never use the really el-cheapo stuff. Tried it once. It was a disaster, even with the better software.

Hope this helps you figure it out.