With a little help from my friends...

[Ridgerunr]

A couple of things when burning data dvd's in Nero: Be sure it is set to close the disk after the burn. Also,use the 'UDF' file option when burning data dvd's...

[maxximilian]

Wow....thanks for all the tips and links folks....it is appreciated.....

Sorry to hijack your thread, Limerick......

I'll try some of these out tonight or tomorrow...but right now I am learning to fly with MS Flight Sim 2004. Ever since Flight Sim X hit the shelves....2004 got downright cheap, so I snagged one, today.


I tried landing a 747 at a small municipal airport. It didn't go well.....

Almost as bad as the last DVD burn I tried.....

[SuperSparks]

Heck that sounds a lot like Air SuperSparks. You get a reasonable take off, and most of the time the aircraft will be the right way up during flight, but safe landings at an actual airport are rare indeed

My fares are very reasonable though, just bring enough money for the taxi fare to get you from whichever field we end up in

[maxximilian]

Hey BJ, you should be careful of using those stick-on labels - they are known to cause data loss on CDRs and DVDrs (the adhesive attacks the top layer).

Maxx, here's another freeware DVD burning app - it would be worth trying if only to determine whether the problem lies with the drive or with Nero.

http://www.deepburner.com/

I finally got around to trying this new burning software....I was busy still learning how to fly.

Anyway....this is what we have....a mixed bag....

Deepburner did burn the data files that Nero failed to burn. However....this drive (which made the disc)....was unable to read it. My laptop DVD drive was able to read it, though. Go figure....

You would think that if the drive could make the disc...it should be able to read it too.....no?

In any case....Nero seems to be part of the problem since it did nothing.

Also tried the Lightscribe.....

The image is very faint....but then again I did nothing to prepare it in terms of brightness or contrast. The image I picked was already in greyscale, so the program didn't have to do any converting. I will try another in the future and boost the contrast and darken the image and see if the results are better.

All things considered...this being my first foray into DVD burning....I already miss CD burning and don't plan to convert any more machines to DVD.

[Limerick]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with this unit, Max. I have a new Lite-On DVD burner that burns reliably. The main reason that I want to get another burner is so that I can try out the LightScribe technology. To my knowledge, I've not yet seen a label created with it, but it sounds like some really cool stuff. It's worth a shot!

A month ago, I had not seen any labels that were created by using LightScribe. Since getting that cool DVD burner from Newegg, I have created several labels on CD and DVD with LightScribe. Though it is a slow process as it writes the image to the media, the result is really nice. (For what it's worth, the "Best" setting in the Nero Cover Designer makes a more attractive image than the "Normal" setting. Normal is the default unless you tell it otherwise.)

Happy Computing!

Limerick

[Limerick]

A couple of things when burning data dvd's in Nero: Be sure it is set to close the disk after the burn. Also,use the 'UDF' file option when burning data dvd's...

Ridge, what happens if one doesn't do these two things? I've recently burned two data DVD's and did not do those steps. Please advise as to what I might expect for not having done so. Thanks!

Happy Computing!

Limerick