Foebane72
Prominent Member
Well, I regularly burn DVD+Rs with all manner of stuff I want to keep, or just updating my project discs and so forth. As of now, my current (new) PC has a Samsung DVD burner which works absolutely fine with the Cyberlink burning software I always use, and has produced no coasters - that is, useless discs.
Except for one hiccup, and it was a major hiccup.
I wanted to buy a whole bunch of good-quality CD-Rs and DVD+Rs to clear a backlog in my burning activities, so I went to a mobile phone shop and bought a whole bunch of JVC brand discs, made in Japan. They seemed fine to me, at least better than the cheap CD-Rs that I bought in some family-run PC shop which were awful - they worked, but they were very fragile and snapped only too easily.
So I opened the DVD+R packet and inspected the top disc in the pile to make sure of the quality, which was pristine with no dust, marks or anything at all. Then I proceeded to burn data onto it. Everything seemed fine during the process but at least once I noticed the drive whirring up and down halfway through, which it should not do. Also, a message balloon popped up during the process to inform me about a Java update.
So the process finishes, and I take a look at the completed disc. From pristine, it was scratched at the edges and even had scuff marks, and the burn areas had gaps in them. This has never happened before with the drive, so I assumed it was the discs. But where would scuff marks come from, as well as a scratch around the near edge of the disc? It was not disturbed at all!
I was concerned, naturally, but proceeded to try again, hoping it was a fluke.
It was.
I burnt over a dozen JVC CD-Rs and DVD+Rs after this dud, and they were fine as normal! I even tested a couple of them to make sure. But none of them had gaps in the data nor scratches or scuff marks.
So I wonder why this one disc went wrong? It's a mystery.
Except for one hiccup, and it was a major hiccup.
I wanted to buy a whole bunch of good-quality CD-Rs and DVD+Rs to clear a backlog in my burning activities, so I went to a mobile phone shop and bought a whole bunch of JVC brand discs, made in Japan. They seemed fine to me, at least better than the cheap CD-Rs that I bought in some family-run PC shop which were awful - they worked, but they were very fragile and snapped only too easily.
So I opened the DVD+R packet and inspected the top disc in the pile to make sure of the quality, which was pristine with no dust, marks or anything at all. Then I proceeded to burn data onto it. Everything seemed fine during the process but at least once I noticed the drive whirring up and down halfway through, which it should not do. Also, a message balloon popped up during the process to inform me about a Java update.
So the process finishes, and I take a look at the completed disc. From pristine, it was scratched at the edges and even had scuff marks, and the burn areas had gaps in them. This has never happened before with the drive, so I assumed it was the discs. But where would scuff marks come from, as well as a scratch around the near edge of the disc? It was not disturbed at all!
I was concerned, naturally, but proceeded to try again, hoping it was a fluke.
It was.
I burnt over a dozen JVC CD-Rs and DVD+Rs after this dud, and they were fine as normal! I even tested a couple of them to make sure. But none of them had gaps in the data nor scratches or scuff marks.
So I wonder why this one disc went wrong? It's a mystery.