Vista - CDs do not burn in nero on windows media

its strange!! but you can burn using Mastered selection? whats that?

If you insert a CD and wait until the Windows AutoPlay options come up, I use "Burn files to disc Using Windows" option. Then I wait a few seconds and the next screen comes up and says "Burn a Disc. Prepare this blank disc" and asks for a disc title. There's an arrow drop down on the left bottom of the screen and there are 2 choices: Live File System and Mastered. I select Mastered. You can read the differences between the 2 choices but Mastered is what's recommended for play in most players. And best of all, it's what works for me at the moment! I am starting to believe my Plextor 712A is at fault too, and maybe it's not all Nero's fault. I just downloaded Nero 9 demo and I have the same message when inserting any brand of CD-Rs: Insert writeable disc.

The reason I am also faulting Nero 8 and 9 is today I tried burning a CD using my external HP 1040e DVDRW burner that I have and I got the same error message, to insert a writeable disc.

Again, no message burning on either using Windows, not the Windows Media Player though.

Have I confused you too?

oh i tried the mastered method but isnt that just for Data files? im having problems burning audio CDs. i thinks thers somthing within my pc thats at fault but cant get to what it could be if neros letting me copy cds but i cannot burn these mps3s in media or nero:S tried different speeds brands everything!

By any chance do you have problems sometimes where the DVD Drive doesn't even show up on your computer and/or it doesn't open when you press eject/open?

Sean

no such problem there, i can boot from the CD drive, and run anything from it, normal audio CDs work on it too

Maybe the problem has something to do with your driver...

Go into your Device Manager. And check to see if there is a Yellow "!" next to you DVD Driver... (Picture showing how)



>Right-Click on Computer
>Click on Properties
>Click on Device Manager in the top-left
>Click continue on the screen that pops up
>In Device Manager find the DVD Driver Spot and expand it...

Let me know what you find out

Sean

No. I use Mastered to burn Audio CDs. Works fine.

I was talking to harvy... I even quoted him.

Sean

no "!" around the hardware there, under the properties it says device is working fine:s i tried to update the driver and apparently i have the latest version, GSA H31N SCSI the the burner, i think its by LG but cant find it on their site