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Nero Express "verifying the compilation" for four hours?!? (DVD burn took 16 minutes)
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a new BENQ 4x DVD+R burner and ProMedia DVD+R 2.4x-4x media on a dual 1 GHz PIII Win2K box w/ 512 MB RAM and all current Windows Updates and Nero Expres v5.5.10.26, .... I burned a little under 4 GB of files onto a DVD+R in about 16 minutes, which I think is about right. Everything seemed to go fine. Then Nero ejected the DVD momentarily, re-closed the drawer, and started its "verifying the compilation" step. That was over 3 hours ago (3:44 to be exact), and it is still verifying. It says that it is 95% done. The little green light on the burner is blinking away busily. No errors have been reported. But about 2.5 hours ago it was at 87%, so at the current rate of progress it'll take a total of 4-6 hours to finish verifying! Does anybody know what is wrong, and how to fix it? -Dave dave146 at burtonsys.com |
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Dave Burton wrote:
Does anybody know what is wrong, and how to fix it? Did your compilation contain lots of small files? I had the same problems when I burned a DVD with thousands of small (4k) files. Verification seems to be extremely inefficient for such a compilation. It seems that you will have to wait or switch off verification. Markus |
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Markus Islinger wrote in message ...
Dave Burton wrote: Does anybody know what is wrong, and how to fix it? Did your compilation contain lots of small files? I had the same problems when I burned a DVD with thousands of small (4k) files. Verification seems to be extremely inefficient for such a compilation. Well, it finally finished. No errors were reported. The DVD seems to be fine, though I don't know how to tell whether there are read errors and retries or ECC-recovery going on. It took 1:40 to do its pre-burn processing, 14:31 to burn, and 4:05:21 to verify. That means that the verify took about 17x as long as the burn. There are 57,157 files and folders, totaling 3,645,911,664 bytes, which means the average file size is about 64K. Do you consider 64K to be a small file? BTW, this is Nero Express v5.5.10.26, which came bundled with an inexpensive Benq DVD+R burner from TigerDirect. -Dave |
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Dave Burton wrote:
There are 57,157 files and folders, totaling 3,645,911,664 bytes, which means the average file size is about 64K. Do you consider 64K to be a small file? I would say 64k is small, especially compared to usual DVD Audio/Video file sizes. |
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"Dave Burton" wrote in message ... Well, it finally finished. No errors were reported. The DVD seems to be fine, though I don't know how to tell whether there are read errors and retries or ECC-recovery going on. That does sound likely. Usually Nero on my PC takes less time to do the verify. If you can afford it or the data is critical I would burn the thing again. |
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