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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 19:30
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I know this forum is far from being a tech support forum, and don't get me wrong, I would never degrade it as one. But I do need some help, and from my past experience here this site has a wealth of information and it doesn't take a week and a half to get it!

I was trying to write a Backtrack ISO to my CD-RW when I realized it was over my CD's limit. So I went out and bought some Fujifilm CD-RW 80Min 700MB/Mo 1x,2x,4x CD's. Yes yes I know the write speed is incredibly low but thats the only thing I could find that was bigger than 650MB.

I came home and tried burning anything to it and it spent the time burning it (it was slow mind you but thats 4x for you ). Only when it came out there was nothing what so ever on the disk. Why the heck would it take the time to burn it if there was nothing on the disk after being written on?

I've set the write speed down to 4x, and I think I've tried 2x too. Nothing what so ever writes to these disks.

I've emailed both Fujifilm and Lite-On's tech support and told them this problem. But I know that past user experience beats a tech support person anyday. Which is why I posted here.

Would the Fujifilms's CD's not be compatible with my Lite-On? I never knew there could be such a thing...

Is there something I'm doing wrong or missing here? Or is it SOL for me?
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CattleRustler
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 19:45
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more likely the drive or the burning software.

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Three Score
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 19:57
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Quote: "Yes yes I know the write speed is incredibly low but thats the only thing I could find that was bigger than 650MB. "

are you serious! where do you live!
over here in the US we have nothing but 700mb cd's with no write speeds lower than 36x(except for cd-rw's)

It might be your burning software, it does support and recognize that the cd is 700mb doesn't it?

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 20:10
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You can get CDs with less than 700 megs of space? o.O


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 20:27
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I can't find anything over 8x - and they are really expensive. A shame really, since my RW drive can burn at 52x, and rewrite at 32.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 20:34
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lol, I live in the US too. I use NERO Burning ROM, it came with the Burner. Yea, my old CD RW were by princo, they were 650MB and they wrote anywhere from 4x to 10x.

Maybe we need to invest in a new CD Burner?

I'd much rather just get some different CD's... (searches for receipt)

I still think I could get this stupid thing to work itself out though... I don't know. I guess the CD Burner Drive isn't that old but with technology moving so fast it probably wouldn't hurt. Plus I need one for my other computer anyway, might as well just send a few bucks and get another one.
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Torrey
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Posted: 15th Jul 2006 21:30 Edited at: 15th Jul 2006 21:31
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This happened to me when I burned tons of stuff on CD before traveling to Europe. The fix that worked for me was installation of some drivers, but I do not remember which ones I installed.

Here's a link for you to check out:

http://www.roxio.com/enu/support/udf/software_updates.html

Once you download that and get it installed you might be able to view those files on the CD. Let us know if that works?

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monotonic
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Sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence here but, after you have burn't the disk is there any marks on the data side of the disk like when you burn a disk you get that distinctive ring area where the data has been written. And if not have you set the writing software to do a test burn and not a full burn, because this sends the data to the writer but doesn't write on the disk?

Again sorry if this is insulting but from my experience you have to start with the simple, most obvious things first when troubleshooting

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 19th Jul 2006 07:25
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Lol, don't worry about it. No offense taken, but yes I did check. Thats the first think I look at after I burn a disk, ALWAYS. I dunno, it's just fun to look at lol.

I ended up on buying a new CD Burner for my own computer. It can burn CD's, DVD's and that DVD RAM stuff. It also has the ability to burn a CD Lable onto it too using a laser. The disks work fine on that CD burner! I wonder if it's just that the one on this computer is just too old
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