I'm having a problem burning jpgs to 700MB disks (several manufacturers) using EZCD Creator Platinum 5.3.4.21a, WinXP SP1, Sony DRU-500A (firmware 10f), DataCD Project using Write Speed 24x, Buffer underrun prevention, Record CD, Track at Once, and Finalize CD. The burn completes successful with no errors. When I checked the contents of the new CD, 10-20% of the pictures are corrupted. I verified that all pictures were fine before making the CD. I was archiving about 699MB of pics.

Strange thing is that from file Explorer's point of view, all files are visible and the file sizes look correct. When trying to access the corrupted pictures, Explorer file access seems slower than usual (as if the indexing is fragmented). Attempting to copy the bad files generates an Error Copying File or Folder: (Cannot read from the source file or disk) or (Data error cyclic redundacy check). The copy always fails on the bad files. A disk copy fails after about 80% completed. Various picture viewers sometimes are able to open the bad files with errors and the data is definitely messed up. I tried running CD-Rx Data Retriever to check where the failures were occurring ... seems like anything written after block 346334 is corrupted. This is fairly consistant on successive burns with different data. Data before the first corrupted file block was recoverable. Anything after it was bad.

I have been running EZCD Creator 5 on WinME with no 700MB data disk creation problems. This new problem started after I upgraded my system to WinXP. The Sony DRU-500A 10g firmware exhibits the same problem.

Anyone have this problem or know if EZCD Creator 6 is more compatible with XP? If the Sony firware upgrade from 10c to 10f could contribute this problem as I cannot trust Creator 5 anymore. Guess I can test with RecordNow DX to see if it is a DVD burner problem or not.
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--Eric--