Hello Gerald,

Tried using CD Burner XP (btw - thanks for pointing it out!), and
here's the thing! It says that it "failed", but it didnt!! Isn't that
wierd!

I did a 1X write with "Test Write (Invalid for DVD Formats)" enabled.
[my drive is a 2X I think]. The test went off fine, but the write
failed right in the beginning (unlike Nero)... Later on, I just
happened to pop the DVD back in and it recognized the disk!

Anyhow, the error was as follows:

"Writing Error: (3) Error reserving DVD-R track/Session blocks.
Unknown error - use extended data for more information (1051). Error
Sense Data: SENSE KEY: 5 ASC: 30 ASCQ: 5"

Strange... but true!

Thanks again,
Sid

On Mar 16, 2:12 am, (Gerard Bok) wrote:
On 15 Mar 2007 13:30:36 -0700, "Sid B"
wrote:

I've been using anAcerAspire 5000 notebook for about a year. During
that while I have only occasionally used theDVDdrivefor writing
DVDs. Just recently, I tried again and it failed twice in the middle
of a burn.

I am using Windows XPSP2 and Nero 7.

I have seen Nero crashing like this before.

My suggestion would be: install a (free) burning package, like
from http://cdburnerxp.se/ and see if that shows the same
results.
It will let you distinguish a hardware from a software problem.

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Kind regards,
Gerard Bok