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As bailey said, not much you can do in Nero itself other than making sure Burn-Proof is turned on and you're using the correct settings for the type of CD you're burning. However, there are a few things you can do that applies to all CD/RW burning, regardless of software used.
Here's a few off the top of my head:
* Always defrag all drives/partitions before every burn (unless burning multiple copies of the same data) and reboot
* Exit all running applications and end task on unneccessary background processes. Don't run anything else besides Nero.
* Don't burn across a network and don't run any Internet accessing applications, even from networked computers (don't run Internet Explorer on one machine while burning on the other, etc)
* Burn at slower speeds (in the 12X-24X range), especially audio CD's
* Move the data to be burned onto your fastest drive/partition (and defrag of course)
* Use Nero's CD-DVD Speed utility to check the quality of your burned disks, adjust burning preparations accordingly
It may or may not be neccessary to be quite so vigilant and some others will tell you, "I burn while multi-tasking all the time", but if you're getting CD's with errors those are a few steps you can take to minimize the chance of a bad burn or lost data. Don't just rely on Burn-Proof/Just-Write, etc... I consider any burn where Burn-Proof had to kick in as a "bad burn", but that's just me.
I have a friend that used to laugh at me for the over-kill I did when burning... until he went to get some important personal data off a year-old CD he had burned and it was so full of read errors it was useless. He no longer multi-tasks when burning, disconnects his cable modem and now checks every burn with CD-DVD Speed, hehe.
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Last edited by JohnE.; 01-03-2004 at 07:19 PM.
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