CDRW Problems

You didn't mention the speed of the CDRW, but that is important. The CDRW requires that data be fed to it at a sufficient rate that it never has to wait. If your hard drive is fragmented and you have a 'slow' processor, you can get into a situation where it momemterily has to wait for data. That will cause it to fail. IF that is the problem, you can scandisk and then defrag your hard drive.

It that doesn't handle the problem, uninstall the software and reinstall.

If that doesn't handle it, go through a hardware uninstall and reinstall. Check the cables, etc. in this process.

O.J.

Also make sure that you continue to turn off your ant-virus program and also the screen saver, and that you don't have anything else running in the background. Also are you Bruning at the speed that you always have in the past? What happens when youdo a Test Burn? Does it lock also?

most cdrw have problems writinf from cd to cd because the cdrw can not have to wait. because it may not write as fast as it reads the cd or because your processor may not move fast enough for many possible reasons it is best to copy the cd to your hard drive and then burn it as a data file. it will not change the format of your data so wave files will still be playable in your cd player and after you are done you can just delete the file. your burned information will be at a much higher quality
good luck

most cdrw have problems writinf from cd to cd because the cdrw can not have to wait. because it may not write as fast as it reads the cd or because your processor may not move fast enough for many possible reasons it is best to copy the cd to your hard drive and then burn it as a data file. it will not change the format of your data so wave files will still be playable in your cd player and after you are done you can just delete the file. your burned information will be at a much higher quality
good luck

This always works. I know you like to run your programs in the system tray because its nice and convenient, but what would you rather do? Burn cd's or watch nice little icons?? OK. Click start, run and type msconfig, under the startup tab, uncheck everything except explorer, systray and scanreg I think it is scanreg, I forget... Reboot your system, Now you will have to run your adaptec manually, but you want to burn cd's right?!? Test burn a cd so you don't waste your precious cd's and voila!Make sure you update your adaptec altough I hate adaptec, update it to the latest version.

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