Is it a media problem?

[ice-berg]

i use authentic riteks G03 (white surface) to backup divx movies on my pioneer 106d. so far i have burned over 50 discs. but now it seems that there are a couple of discs that i am having trouble with. that is when i try to open a file that is located in the last sector of the disk, it doesnt open and it goes in a hault. all of my discs are scratch free also.
i tried using bad copy pro to retrieve those files, but with no luck.

has anybody faced this problem?

i would have said that this was a bad batch of dvd-rs, but the majority of the discs seem to work fine.

[lenti_75]

sure it looks this way....some bad dvd's

[Capmaster]

I buy my blanks 100 or 200 at a time and occasionally (like my current batch) I get 2 or 3 in a row that are just bad. The rest are flawless, so I think that you can have a few bad ones in an otherwise good batch.

There have been times where all the indications are that it's a bad disc, but I run a Scotch laser lens cleaner through it and it burns that disc fine afterwards. Or, like last night, I'll get a burn error in Nero for 4 or 5 in a row, and then I power it down and back on and it burns those just fine. Sometimes I've even gotten Nero to burn a bad one. The drive light never changes to green (meaning all OK) but if I eject and insert it'll take it and Nero will burn it. But on playback it halts and freezes. Bad media.

[dphirschler]

After fighting with this same problem for a few months I determined that it was not the media, but the FAT32 file system. Now I use ImgTool Classic to create images and DVD Decrypter to burn and all is well. ImgTool Classic creates multi-segment image files so the FAT32 file system can now write DVDs larger than 4 gigs. IFO Edit (the tool I used to use for image file creation) does not give an error when it reaches the 4 gig file limit.

Since your profile is blank, I cannot tell which OS you are using. If you are running Windows 98, then this could be the same problem. Are the discs that are failing larger than the ones that were successfully created? If you still have the image files on your harddrive, are the failing ones all the same size?

Anyways, check into ImgTool Classic if you are using Win98 or FAT32 (or FAT16) file system.


Darryl

[FulciLives]

When you burn a DVD make sure you run a READ ERROR TEST on it using something like DVDInfoPro

If you have ZERO read errors then you are A-OK ... if you have even a single READ ERROR then may I suggest you chuck that DVD disc and use another.

Also if you are creating a data DVD it might be a good idea not to fill it up past 4.0GB

Last but not least MPEG-4 such as DivX and Xvid can have problems if the AVI file is over 2GB so never make a single DivX/Xvid AVI file that is over 2GB in size.

I should point out that this AVI limitation for DivX/Xvid has nothing to do with FAT32 vs NTFS ... even with NTFS you should respect this rule.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[ice-berg]

thanks for the tips.

i'm running windows xp pro, and the partitions are under fat32.
all my divxs are below the 2gig barrier and all of the discs i burnt were above 4gig but certainly not to the rim (i leave about 300megs of free space).

so here is what i will do, i will check the disc with dvdinfo and if the problem is still there i will try the imgtool and decrypter.

thanks again