CD-Burner

Currently running programs could be using CPU power, or writing to the HDD during your writing process. Make sure nothing else is running in the background, and make sure noone is accessing your computer from a network. Also never access your floppy drive, or external ZIP drive while burning, both of these devices take almost 100% cpu to access, thus causing your CPU to "forget" to update the buffer for your write proccess.

Could you be using bad or low quality discs? This also has been known to cause underruns. Just a few suggestions, I hope they help.

Earthworm

I agree.

When I am burning a CD, I go so far as to disconnect from my internal network, disable all system monitoring programs (I have Norton always monitoring my system) and any Virus Checkers.

I generally set aside a portion of time where I do all of the 'Burning' I have to and then reboot and get on with any other work after this process.

Good Luck !!

Try this fix if the others don't work:

1. Disable AutoInsertNotification for your
CD drives. This can cause buffer underrun.
2. Disable any NIC card in Device Manager.
3. In your System.ini file, insert the
following two lines in the section
[vcache]
MinFileSize=1024
MaxFileSize=4096
Actually, MaxFileSize should be set to whatever size your CD-R cache actually is.

I burn CD a lot and what I do is close all applications, disable Screensaver and Power Management. I don't have to disconnect my network connection because a lot of my data to burn to CD are coming from the server. Screensaver and Power Management are the ones causing me problems in burning CD.

One of the apps the you really have to close is JetAdmin, if you are running one. It constantly broadcasts that affects CD burning.

try useing a few other burning programs that are out there

Diskjuggler
Cdr-win
Nero

that might help

I was faced with the same problem and the solution below worked for me.

In addition to all of the previous suggestions, you can try to choose a smaller burning speed...

For example if you're burner supports 4X writting then you can try to write at 2X or if its maximum burning speed is 2X then try to burn at 1X.

This will take more time but it should solve your problem.

It's related to your harddisk's speed and the type of your burner's connection. Usually parallel port connections/ IDE connections are slower than SCSI ones.

hope this works for you....

- Rafik

cool...everyone gave basically the same suggestions, and it's cool. i had the same problem too, and i tried all the above. but the problem is not that, it's the hardware itself. my problem was that the lens was all worn out, so i have to change the whole cd-writer, so my guess is that your burning lens is messed up, i suggest you go back to the shop and change it... ;-}
hope it's still guranteed...hehehehe
hope it helps!!

Try this:
Restart to DOS
go to c:\windows\desktop
make a new dir ((md norton))
Copy the entire CD to this norton folder
((copy d:\ c:\windows\desktop\norton))
then type ((win)) to get back to windows and try to install from the HD.

** All commands here are without the (( )).
Hope this helps.