trouble with burning/downloading

[Harry Kuhman]

...i use azureus as my torrent manager. it does all the checks and everything but i haven't found out why the iso keeps messing up. it burns at 4x speeds, 700 MB disk.
i managed to get the disk to start booting once but failed with an I/O error.

I'm confused by what this means. Have you gotten a download that passed the md5 checksum test? If not then it is pointless to do a burn. If you have passed the md5 checksum test then there is absolutely no reason to download again, the ISO file is good.

i am now attempting to downloading using utorrent, the program the site suggests using.

I believe at one point that I saw reports of some bogus sites that were downloading a version of azureus complete with malware, but as long as you got it from the official site azureus should be just fine. Also, if you do decide to try an alternate client there is no reason to download everything again, just start the alternate client configured to download to the same place that azureus was, it will check all of the files already there and only download segments that are bad, if any. I tried to make that clear in my previous post.

I've used a few different clients and not had problems with any of them. There were some very old clients that could not download a DVD size image properly, failed as they crossed the 4 gig boundary, but all can download the CD ISO. All current BT clients should be able to deal with files larger than 4 gig as well. All can repair an incomplete download from a different client.

One very easy way to do the repair is start the new client and let it start the download for a minute or two. Then shut it down. Find the directory when it started to download the files to. Delete all of these files, and swap in the "completed" files that you have. Restart the client, it should check the files, and determine if any segments are bad, and repair them if needed.

If you post again about burning please state that you have an ISO file that passed the md5 test.