Media Center will no longer burn recorded TV shows to DVD

Clay

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Media Center will no longer burn recorded TV shows to DVD. I have been recording cartoon shows off the air for my godson to watch. This week, I started getting errors and every attempt to burn a DVD attempt aborts. At first I thought maybe I had some bad DVD+R media, but I am able to burn other things to DVD outside of Media Center.

Here is what happens: In Media Center, I select the episodes of recorded TV shows that I want to burn to DVD. The process starts normally, indicating that it may take "several hours" to finish. After about an hour or so, at 28% completion, I hear the DVD burner spin up like it is going to start recording. After a few (perhaps five to ten) seconds, it stops and ejects the disk. In Media Center, an error comes up saying: "BURN FAILURE, An error has occurred in burning the CD/DVD." There is no further info nor error codes.

I am running Vista Ultimate 64-bit on an HP system with a quad core processor. Last week I upgraded my storage as follows: The system has a 500GB RAID1 mirrored disk that contains the C: and D: drives. (D: is the HP system restore disk.) My C: drive was getting pretty full, so I added a pair of 1.5TB drives, also as a RAID1 mirrored pair, designated as drive G:.

I moved my data files off the C: drive to the G: drive. This included moving the folders like Documents, Pictures, Videos, etc. to the G: drive. I also moved the Recorded TV folder to the G: drive. In Media Center, I told it to save recorded TV programs to this location, and I also added this folder to the list of monitored folders, and removed the drive C: folders from the list.

Everything worked great. Media Center records TV programs and plays them back just fine. But when it comes to burning a program to DVD, I get the same failure every time. I'm guessing there must be some pointer somewhere that I neglected to reroute to the G: drive, but I can't find it.

I saw the MS KB article about having a drive root in the monitored folder list in Media Center library setup. I checked and verified there are no drive roots in the list. In fact, I removed every folder from the list, so that only the default recording directory of G:/Recorded TV is monitored. I also tried doing a clean boot where you remove everything from the Vista startup sequence so that only the basic MS services remain. The problem still continued.

This is actually difficult to test for what works and what doesn't, because it has to run for about an hour, apparently processing the video, before it attempts to start burning the DVD+R. That is when it decides to abort and gives the failure message. It seems that it also destroys the DVD+R in the process, because it is never recognized as a recordable disk again, and yet Windows Explorer doesn't show anything on it (or even recognize it, actually).

So I am guessing the problem is related to the fact that I moved my data from the C: drive to the G: drive, but I can't be sure. Can you give me any clues where to start looking for this problem?

Thanks!

>>>> Clay >>>>
 

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