Here are some suggestions that you should check before you attempt to "burn" a CD-R disc on a computer.
1. Make sure no other programs are running in the background like a screen saver or virus program when you are burning a disc. I usually clean boot, start windows, then start my CD-R burner program.
2. DE-FRAG your hard drive. I have alot of free space on my hard drive so I copy the WAV files I want to burn to another drive. Copying insures that the files are not fragmented, and is very easy to do. It does not take much disk fragmentation to ruin a CD
3. Make sure the media is absolutely "spotless". Clean it with a moistureless canned air duster.
Some CD burner programs rather than ruin a disc will copy the last contents of the buffer to a CD, then move on when the buffer has been replenished. This results in a "stutter", or a repeated section of music. This problem is usually caused by disk fragmentation.
Nick G.
1998/01
Some additional ideas come from Rick Knepper on this topic:
My problem with the CD-R turned out not to be the fault of the CD-R at all. The QPS tech guy had me go through a check list. When you are ready to burn a disk, this check list includes closing every program except Explorer (Press CTRL, ALT, DEL simultaneously, this brings up the task list, end every task except the aforementioned and the Easy CD), make sure all screen savers, virus detection software, disk utilities are turned off (you must have an uninterupted data stream and these things jack with that flow), ETC.
Still, I was producing coasters, But, I had noticed, after discussing this data stream concept with the tech guy, that my hard disk powered down by itself even though I had disabled that function in my CMOS. I told the tech guy about this quirk and he told me to check my Control Panel for the Power Icon (this utility gets loaded when you custom install Windows 95 and essentially load all the features) and make sure it was not turned on. Well, sure enough, it was. Windows 95 was powering down my hard disk every thirty minutes. I couldn't figure that out because I was burning from an image file located on an entirely different disk. Check this out on your system. Once I disabled every possible interruption, I have had clear burning (20 disks since, not one coaster).
Rick Knepper rfkiii@swbell.net
1998/01