Category: Geeks r Us
i got the entire harry potter series for christmas on audio cd. so i bought a 100 pack of burnables to make a back up of the series because i did not want to get the originals ruined. so it took me 3 weeks to burn all 99 discs. now here is when the problem came in. first, let me explain a bout my computer and the software that i used to copy the discs. i only have one cd drive on my laptop. i used the cd burning software called sonic record now. what i did was i pressed the make an exact copy of a disc in your collection button. now, the copying went fine i think. when the burned copies came out, i noticed a flaw in the copies. the last track on every single burned cd had severe scratching sounds in them and one even skipped. now, i know for a fact that all 198 discs that were involved in the process were perfectly clean, no scratches or hand prints or dust to speak of on them. what can be causing this problem? is it the software that i am using, or the copying process? what can it be? i am so upset because i wasted 99 burnables.
it might be your burning speed. You might be setting the cd speed to high for those cds. CDs have a limet on how fast the can spin without scratching it. I don't have record now as i don't like it because of its interface, however, try looking at write speed options, it should be somewhere in there. If it's something like 52x, it's not recommended. it could be bad for the cd it question.
That's possible. A couple other things to try. Try finding an option (I don't know your specific cd burning software, but every one I've seen to date has it somewhere), where it'll check the cd after it's done burning.
It's also remotely possible you got a bad batch of cd's.
also try a drive cleaning disk. it's actually recommended you clean the drive every 10 hours of use.
hth!
Also try taking the CD's back to the store you got them from on the basis it was a bad run of blanks and get a new pack. Then try one first, if it goes well, along with all the above suggestions, then your in business.
well how can i take them back as they all have been written on?
i will try all of the above suggestions. hey do u think maybe i can do a test run on a cdrw so i can erase and rewrite after i try all the above procedures? this way i am not wasting any more discs. also the discs that i used were HP brand. they were the cheapest. $22 for a 100 pack.
oh yes and to add another comment to my first post. it only happened when i pressed the make an exact copy button. it does fine when i burn songs from my hard drive. no problems there.
Try the cd's in a computer to test the track, then a different cd player. Burn them at say, half the speed that is possible and have you considered ripping them as mp3's since it would save alot more money?
actually i figured out y the cd's are not copying right. they are copy protected from book 3 onward. i think this is really messed up because i know i have the legal right to copy the cd's for back up purposes. now that i figured out that they are protected, i cannot save them into my computer. i have tried and whenever the lazer hits a copy protection code, it starts going crazy.