BD-burner writes a BDR but data gets corrupted

[ma-fia]

I've got an LG BE12LU38 hoping to clean up my hard drive and store important data that gets used only once in a blue moon on BDs.
I am aware that my computer is not capable of actually playing back BDs, it's not fast enough. But I was hoping that for the purpose of just writing data and storing it, it would be all right.
I have test-written some word files and .mkv's on a DVDR, and it was fine
But with BDR, the data got written, all file sizes corresponded, but when I tried to open files, and even copied them back on the hard drive to see what it was like, all data was corrupted.
Where does my logic "limp"?
I am wondering if I should set writing speed at extra low...

OS: WinXP Sp3
CPU Type DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 4200+
Motherboard Name Asus A8M2N-LA (NodusM3) (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, LAN)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE, AMD Hammer
Memory: 3G
I didn't like the software that came with the drive, I used Roxio Creator, that I normally use.

(a few minutes later) Well... After thinking about writing speeds, I looked at the BDR I tried to burn, and it said 6x writing speed. I know that the drive is capable of 12x speed. I looked in the options of the Roxio, and it was set at max. Maybe that was the problem? Trying to re-burn at 4x...

[fritzi93]

You should ditch Roxio, for one, (and you may need udfreader as well). Use ImgBurn instead. Beyond that, you don't say what discs you've been using. Crummy media may *apparently* burn successfully, then fail verification, even in ImgBurn. Have you been verifying your burns?

[ma-fia]

I will check out ImgBurn, thank you.
The media was a 6x Verbatim that came with the LG burner...
Did you read the P.S. in the 1st post. I thought maybe I messed up with speed of burning. As I said, the drive's capable of 12, and in Roxio it was set at max...

Also, which dual layer BDRs would you recommernd?

[ma-fia]

And how do you deal with udrreader? Install it and forget it's there?..
Apart from corrupted data, I was able to see the files on bdr just fine...

[ma-fia]

PROBLEM SOLVED.
Thanks everybody.
It was the burn speed. Once I adjusted the speed according to the specs on BD-R, everything written, everything plays.
And I didn't even have to install the UdfReaer - I'll keep it in case I might need it in the future though.
Strange to me that the BD burner should not recognize the max burn speed of the media...
I am a happy camper.

[fritzi93]

I suspect it was Roxio not respecting the speed rating of the discs. When I use ImgBurn it disregards a speed setting that's too high and sets highest rated speed.

Anyway, glad you got it sorted out. BTW, the suggestion about UDFReader was because XP doesn't read some udf versions, e.g. 2.50 for Blu-Rays. It does no harm to install it to make sure, although you may not need it due to some other software having already installed it.

[ma-fia]

Yeah... I have installed so much various software, there's no telling what's on my computer now. I was trying a lot of various freeware to use for ripping, muxing, remuxing, extracting, subs tweeking and God knows what else. Have a nice set of tools that I do like and understand as a result... Took a lot or cussing and what-the-hell'ing in the process...
I don't know if I want to mess with ImgBurn right now though. I understand how Roxio works and it's super simple, and that's good enough for now. I might give it a try in a day or so.
What I know for sure - the next step is ditch the PowerDVD (or whatever it is that the LG burner came with)! Tons of fancy animation, but go figure how it works. Couldn't even make it burn a BD! I guess because it decided that my computer is "not good enough" to play them; I suspect it didn't even installed those option. I prefer to be the judge of what I can and what I CAN'T do.
I prefer to set low burn speeds anyway, for better quality anyway. So once I figured out how in Roxio, that's cool. I noticed, that Roxio was recording at speeds of 1 to 2.5 once I set the burn speed to 4, which I like a lot.
Thank you.