I am on my second E85 now (after a HDD failure in the first) and both have had the same 'occasional' problem, so I wondered if anyone else had experienced similar.
Sometimes I get a title which just will not dub to DVD-R. It is nothing to do with the discs as it doesnt matter how many I try I get the same problem but other titles write to them fine. The only failures I have ever have are identical to this and seem to be the file rather than the disc.
These titles dub to DVD-RAM OK, but copying them back to the HDD and trying to dub the new file to DVD-R also fails.
So it appears there is some kind of corruption in the file which stops if from being copied to DVD-R.
The dub starts but then fails part way through.
On the older machine I would notice that in the middle of a title I might see a frame of another title flash past - indicating perhaps some kind of fragmentation issue? On the new machine it hapenned with the third title I wrote to the disc though, so surely fragmentation couldnt be the cause? I have been accumulating stuff for the kids on the HDD for a couple of months though and this title had been on there a long(ish) time so may not have been corrupt initially. I am now archiving stuff to disc so that I can reformat the disc and do some housekeeping. Out of 26 titles I wanted to put on disc last night, 3 failed. I restarted the dub omitting the failed titles and everything else wrote OK, so the DVD disc is fine.
Any ideas? With the first one I put it down as perhaps a symptom of the failing hard disc, but now with the second one I wonder if I have another duff HDD or if the problem is just bad software on the machines - in which case I would expect others to have seen similar?
cheers for any thoughts...
Sometimes I get a title which just will not dub to DVD-R. It is nothing to do with the discs as it doesnt matter how many I try I get the same problem but other titles write to them fine. The only failures I have ever have are identical to this and seem to be the file rather than the disc.
These titles dub to DVD-RAM OK, but copying them back to the HDD and trying to dub the new file to DVD-R also fails.
So it appears there is some kind of corruption in the file which stops if from being copied to DVD-R.
The dub starts but then fails part way through.
On the older machine I would notice that in the middle of a title I might see a frame of another title flash past - indicating perhaps some kind of fragmentation issue? On the new machine it hapenned with the third title I wrote to the disc though, so surely fragmentation couldnt be the cause? I have been accumulating stuff for the kids on the HDD for a couple of months though and this title had been on there a long(ish) time so may not have been corrupt initially. I am now archiving stuff to disc so that I can reformat the disc and do some housekeeping. Out of 26 titles I wanted to put on disc last night, 3 failed. I restarted the dub omitting the failed titles and everything else wrote OK, so the DVD disc is fine.
Any ideas? With the first one I put it down as perhaps a symptom of the failing hard disc, but now with the second one I wonder if I have another duff HDD or if the problem is just bad software on the machines - in which case I would expect others to have seen similar?
cheers for any thoughts...