Disc Burning Problems

[djschererjr]

About a month ago, my wife and I purchased a new Sony Vaio. I have been trying to get Easy CD/DVD Creator to work with the DVD RW drive, but I am having very little luck. I wanted to see if anyone might know a solution.

System Specs:
Sony Vaio PCV-RS10
P4 2.66 GHz
256 MB RAM
Sony DVD RW UW12A

First, the System Recovery seemed to work fine. Although, now I seem to remember getting an error or two. I was using CD-Rs.

While running WinXP Home Ed., installed ECDC 5.0 Plat and attempted to backup some files using a CD-RW (Sony and CompUSA brands). DirectCD would give an error every time I tried to format the disc.

I purchased ECDC 6.0 Platinum after checking the Roxio site for drive support. I had very similar problems. I tried to simply burn some files to a CD-R using Creator Classic. I believe the discs were (CompUSA, Maxell, Memorex). Still kept getting errors.

I updated the firmware on the drive and still got errors.

I formatted the hard drive (left the Sony partition alone) and installed WinXP Professional to get a clean slate. Installed ECDC 6.0 again. Still having the same problems.

Here are the type errors I am getting from the drive:

E80041882: Disc error - power calibration area error - [03/73/03]
E80041899: Write error - buffer underrun occurred - [06/C5/00]
E80041925: TrackWriter error - Command retry failed - [T7118]
E80004005: Unspecified error

- OR -

E80041871: Recorder error - cannot seek to the requested location - [03/02/00]
E80041899: Write error - buffer underrun occurred - [06/C5/00]
E80041925: TrackWriter error - Command retry failed - [T7118]

I have tried lower speeds.

I went out and bought some Sony CD-Rs and DVD-Rs. The Sony CD-Rs would not work. However, the DVD-R DID work. The drive is supposed to support many of these formats.

I decided to use Norton Ghost 2002 to backup my current image and then use System Recovery to get back to the original config. After booting up in DOS and running Ghost, I had a very similar error to the ones I had been getting in WinXP.

I am beginning to think it is the media I am using. What brand of CD-R/CD-RW does Sony like? I would assume the Sony brand would work, but maybe not. I would hate to have to use DVD-Rs to do the minimal amount of backup that I have to do. My other two systems only have CD-R/RW drives. I would hate to have to upgrade those just because of this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Joseph

[Hardcoreruss]

Have you only tried one program ?

Do you get the same problems in others ?

Test it with a free burner like dvd decrypter.