"Could not perform fixation" error

[SJRM]

Hello :


I have a DVD/CD-RW Samsung-352B, attached as the slave device on the primary IDE channel, with two hard drives (each of them attached as the primary device on the primary and secondary IDE channel, of 40Gb and 80Gb respectively). I have 768MB RAM, Athlon Xp 2000+

I have WIndows XP Pro.
I was burning CDs with Nero 5.5 without any problem.

I install Nero6, and when i tried to burn a CD, i got the message "Could not perform fixation" error. I have found on another forums that i should try burning at a low speed (my drive is 52X and the media is 48X); so, i tried to burn at 8X, 12X, 16X, and even 32X... and i continue getting the same error.

I uninstalled NEro6 -thinking that it may be causing the problem-, and reinstall Nero 5.5 ... and nothing changes.
I have upgraded the firmware of the drive (i also read about it on another forum). And i don't know what else to do!!

Does anybody have more suggestions to help me?

Something i have noticed is that before this problem begun, if i put a 48X media on the drive, Nero only let me write at this speed (or less)... now, no matter what media i put on the drive, NEro always let me burn at 52X (the speed of the drive)

The drive read CDs and DVDs ok, without problem. And when i try to burn a CD, it get out of the drive really hot (i haven´t noticed if this was the same before, with the CDs that get burned ok).

Thks
Sergio R.

 

[LTR12101B]

Me too - 5.5.10.42 worked great - then I upgraded??? to version 6 (6.3.0.2) - same problem, plus Invalid target at other times (erase) too.

I can still write in DAO, but not in TAO, but that means I can't do multisession - didn't spot it immediately, as I always do DAO unless it's multisession.

Dismayed to hear it then becomes broken in 5.5 as well

PS. Mine is Win98SE, with the old 12x Liteon - I was half-expecting it to be poor testing on 98, but if you have it in XP as well.

I have other CD-R software installed, do you? some really don't get on with each other, but nothing new was added between 5.5 and 6.0 - I used NeroClean as well.

Nero 6? - I wish I'd never heard of it!

 

[SJRM]

Other CD Recording software

I have CloneCD and the Windows Media Player (it has a built-in function to burn CDs)... but i haven`t prove them because i damage all my CDs trying to burn them with Nero...

I will have to buy more CDs to test the other programs...

Anymway... does anybody has a solution?

Sergio R.

 

[SJRM]

nothing works

I hace tried to burn a music CD with the Windows Media Player... it don`t gave any error... but it takes a very long time.... and when it finish, the CD doesn´t work, neither my CD Player nor ny computer could read it.

Any help... please??

Sergio