How to overburn 800 mb disks
This may/may not contribute but here's my personal Nero 800 MB overburning notes.........
2 things are required to burn 800 MB (90 minute) disks:
1: Recording software that supports overburning (Nero Burning Rom DOES)
2: A cd burner that supports overburning. (if it doesn't then firmware update is the only solution... only if the firmware provides this feature)
Here's how I did it using Nero Burning Rom recording software:
Step 1: Install Nero Burning Rom and ensure it's working properly with your recorder.
Step 2: Verify whether the CD-Recorder you're using supports overburning. To do this, open Nero and choose
RECORDER menu. In this dialog box, see the drive information by selecting your CD-RECORDER (highlight [your particular drive] by clicking once). Here you can check to see if your recorder support's over burn or not. In lower portion of dialog box, you will see the word: "Overburn". Out beside it you will see one of two listings:
1:
Supported
2:
Not Supported
If your drive supports overburning proceed to step 3. If it doesn't, STOP and check to see if you can find firmware that will update and provide "overburning" feature.
Step 3: This step will show you how to check the capacity of the CD-R disc you're using for recording.
Go go Recorder menu and select
Medium Info. In this dialog box, you will see that total capacity is:
00:00:00 (0 MB) and
available capacity 10:00:00 (88 MB). This is absolutely ok for using 90 minute (800 MB) CD-R. Step #4 will explain how to check amount of data (source length).
Step 4: Go to
File menu and select
Write Cd. (If you have not made a compilation earlier then please make it first by selecting
New Compilation. In this dialog box, select
Info. This will give you information about the exact total of data. Just make sure that this amount should always be less than the
Maximum CD Length, which we will select in
Expert Feature.
Always use
disk at-once method only while writing an over sized CD-R.
Step 5: Now, the most important setting about
Expert Feature over burn Maximum CD length... Please do the following:
Go to
File menu, select
Preferences, and then select
Expert Feature. This is the main area where you have to select
Enable Over Burn and enter
90 min 2 sec 0 frame, then click
OK. This will allow you to make over size burning.
After making these settings, start
Writing. When you click the
Write button, it will ask for confirmation about
Overburning by showing another window. You have to click the
Write Over Burn CD button on lower right of dialog box.
