Bad Dvd-R/ Writer,, maybe??

[Regal]

Guys, help me out with something.

I notice after a few burns w/ my external drive which was awesome and all burned at 4x. Then at about the 4th backup, my buffer % went down to 1% and my dvd record speed went to 1x and stayed there.

I then closed the burn session and was thinking it was a bad dvd-R, so I got another dvd-r and it did the same thing after it completed about ¼ of the way.

Then I ejected that dvd-r out and reboot system and tried again w/ another brand dvd-r and it did the same and went to 1% buffer @ 1x. Why is it doing that? What could be wrong?

The 1st three dvd-r’s were Optodisc which I had never had any probs. Then after the reboot PC I got out my mighty Prodisc and it did the same also. What is this problem occurring? Any suggestions?


I have about 3 gigs of hard drive space still available. This is weird. Hummmm..

Additional info:

I have a USB 2.0 Lacie 8x external burner. Software using to burn is Roxio Creator (which I used 1 million times before). My Lacie is a LiteOn 812 w/ the new firmware update. Could my burner be dieing?? Thanks

[Krispy Kritter]

Drive over heating maybe??

[Regal]

nah,, I just got a new dvd burner by LG. I hope those are good.

[budz]

check to see that the drive in in DMA mode.....

[Nilfennasion]

Without wanting to sound like a PR machine, LG are the best. They are so good, in fact, that I would contend anyone who is having problems with them is doing something wrong.