Is my Drive Bad?

[gustavo]

I have a Sony CD writer at home, the other day I began having "Could not perform Fixation" errors trying to burn some pictures of my daughter using Nero and TDK CDRs. No problem using Storax CDRWs.

I thought the media used was bad and to be thrown away but my wife suggested me to take them to work and see what happens (here I have a Sony Combo able to read DVDs).

At work the TDKs worked perfectly, I made some compilations without finalizing the discs, then carried them home and tried Nero on them again, Nero saw the disks as finalized, not able to be written to.

I brought the media to work again, the media is still writable here

Any ideas?

Thanks Gustavo.-

 

[kitkat22]

Well the transfer of media may have been from two different programs reading the same disk. Nero reads writable disks different than Roxio, etc. Have you tried reinstalling Nero? If that doesn't work it may be time to get a new drive. They're only about $25-30. If you opt for DVD+/-RW than that will be about $40 or so.

 

[montag451]

I would try a different burning yoot before throwing out the drive, but cscpiano is right on the whole i think.

Try cdburnerXPpro