Pioneer dvdrw dvr K16 with Nero 6 Ultra

[eclipsearikado]

Hi, I just registered about 2 minutes ago, so I can only post in Newbie/General discussions until tomorrow. However, I'm really worried about my dvd burner, so I'm asking for help here, and I hope it is not too horrible a thing to do.

I bought an HP Pavilion dv2000 notebook computer in September of 2006. It has a Pioneer dvr K16 8x DVD+/- R/RW drive with dual layer support, which I hear to be unreliable. The computer came with a trial version of Sony burner software which I never use. I installed Nero 6 Ultra.

I tried several times to burn a data disc DVD at 8x and then 6x, never putting more than 3 GB of data on a disc. The DVD would seem to burn perfectly fine (no buffer issues, nothing) until the very end (when 99% or 100% complete). Then I would always get an error message that says "invalid field in command" then "disc-at-once failed." Afterwards, the discs would come out completely blank, as if they had never been used at all.

Nero 6 Ultra works perfectly fine on my desktop computer, so I am worried that something is wrong with the Pioneer drive on this notebook computer.

Has anyone here experienced similar problems? Can anyone offer an explanation?

[Krispy Kritter]

The error log from Nero would be helpful. It tells exactly why the burn failed. But from your description, it does indeed sound like a bad drive.