Laptop CD Drive

[Ryushii]

I've been trying to burn some CDs of games, making the files on the CDs rather large (500KB+). The CDs have a volume limit of 700KB, but I'm certainly not breaching that. Still, my drive keeps not buring the disks quite right, often destroying the CD-R in the process (not physically, memory-wise). It then asks me to put in another disk, and generally after a few tries I get a succesful CD burnt. I have not encountered many problems with my burner before, with the exception that sometimes it will tell me it has failed to burn a music CD correctly, when in fact it has burned it just fine but oddly added an extra 2 seconds of blank space onto each track. This incident happens quite often, but it's also quite harmless, so I've just ignored it. I guess my question is, why is my CD drive being such a bitch?

Edit: Thought I would mention I'm on an HP Pavilion Laptop model dv6000, about a year and a half old, and I use Windows XP, if any of that helps.

[Shuemue]

What software are you using? And your OS?

[Isiolia]

Have you tried running a cleaning disc in it?

Also, have you used it extensively prior to this, particularly to burn a lot of discs in a row?

I've had a couple drives burn out due to use, one of which was often unable to read discs it wrote. Could be your drive is simply dirty, or it could be failing. It's not all that uncommon.

[Changz]

You'll want to rule out software related issue before condemning the drive. Apps running on your system can give you those issues, depending on how many applications you are running while burning CDs and how memory intensive or even HDD intensive (file fetching) they are. Also some cheap media rates itself at higher burning speeds than should really be used.

Try slowing the burning speed first, then try disabling startup apps and burning. Last just try burning using the windows XP built-in utility (this will tell you if its your burning software or not)... if you are still having issues you probrably need a new drive.

[Spekkio]

could also be a stack of bad media. had that happen w/ dvdRs where the dye layer was all messed up. even had 1 that the plastic layers above and below the dye didn't bond properly and just peeled apart when poked. was kinda cool though.