Quote Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman
  • 1 Media related
    2 A burner issue, such as a dirty lense (or just a bad unit, since you say it is new).
    3 Something nasty that has infected your Windows system
I agree, I think it'll be 1 or 2. I think 3 is unlikely, my machine is pretty stable (oooh, I'm setting myself up for a fall, time to backup... )

  • 4 As a last desperate guess I would say something USB2 related. I don't really believe that, but I don't think USB should be used for burning media either. And you say it is a USB2 drive - you do have it on a USE2 interface and not an old USB 1.1 interface, right?
It is a USB2 port. I agree, I wouldn't burn it over USB if possible, but I have a tablet with no media drive (oh what a joy I tell you!) and so it's my only option. I'll try burning it from someone else's PC with an in-built writer.

I'm really at a loss to understand the overwriting failed error message; I've burnt lots of CDs and DVDs with Nero 6, have made more than my fair share of coasters and had read errors during the verification pass many times, but I've never seen a overwriting failed error.
It's a mystery to me also. I disabled it as I wasn't sure what it was on about, seems to have fixed the burning error but not the verification error.

And so it goes on...

Thanks for all your input Harry - Callum.