I've got a problem. I have a few CD-images (ISO9660) of over 700 MB which I wished to burn on CD-Rs. I have bought a set of 5 CD-R90 (said to be 780MB/90min) by Silver Line (dye info says it's Ritek), thought I'd try to burn them on those oversized CD-R's.
I know this size is over the standard and some drives would not be able to read it. But they say nowadays most modern drives and even CD players can read those.
So anyway, I got off to one image of 732MB (83:18.31), trying to burn it with Nero - Burning Rom 5.5. So I open it (File -> Burn Image...). Then I get the warning, which as I understand should be usual, as Nero cannot know the real size of the media I have - "The entered block size does not correspond to the image length"... I choose Ignore (I do want a standard data mode 1 CD, after all).
I go to the Preferences Dialog, to Expert Features, and Enable overburn 'disc-at-once' burning to 84:00.00. Then, in the "Write CD" dialog, I choose 1 copy in Disc-At-Once/96 mode in the lowest speed my Lite-On LTR 52246S write supports (4x - 600KB/s).
First I do a simulation (not really sure what it does, but I read it's recommended to try it before overburning). The simulation goes quite well. Afterwards I try the real writing. It also seems to go quite well - Nero reports a success.
Yet problem is now that I just cannot read this CD. Not in any CD drive of any other machine, neither on the CD/DVD-ROM drive I have here, nor or the drive in which I actually burned it. Windows XP just shows the CD to be empty, and Windows 98, IIRC, just cannot read it.
The writing software I used was Nero 5.5.9.13 (which came bundled with the Lite-On LTR 52246S writer I used) on Windows XP Professional SP1. The media is a Ritek/Silver Line CD-R 780.
Anyone else experienced a similar problem? Does overburning normally work for you? Is there anything I should have done differently?
Thanks,
-- Tom
I know this size is over the standard and some drives would not be able to read it. But they say nowadays most modern drives and even CD players can read those.
So anyway, I got off to one image of 732MB (83:18.31), trying to burn it with Nero - Burning Rom 5.5. So I open it (File -> Burn Image...). Then I get the warning, which as I understand should be usual, as Nero cannot know the real size of the media I have - "The entered block size does not correspond to the image length"... I choose Ignore (I do want a standard data mode 1 CD, after all).
I go to the Preferences Dialog, to Expert Features, and Enable overburn 'disc-at-once' burning to 84:00.00. Then, in the "Write CD" dialog, I choose 1 copy in Disc-At-Once/96 mode in the lowest speed my Lite-On LTR 52246S write supports (4x - 600KB/s).
First I do a simulation (not really sure what it does, but I read it's recommended to try it before overburning). The simulation goes quite well. Afterwards I try the real writing. It also seems to go quite well - Nero reports a success.
Yet problem is now that I just cannot read this CD. Not in any CD drive of any other machine, neither on the CD/DVD-ROM drive I have here, nor or the drive in which I actually burned it. Windows XP just shows the CD to be empty, and Windows 98, IIRC, just cannot read it.
The writing software I used was Nero 5.5.9.13 (which came bundled with the Lite-On LTR 52246S writer I used) on Windows XP Professional SP1. The media is a Ritek/Silver Line CD-R 780.
Anyone else experienced a similar problem? Does overburning normally work for you? Is there anything I should have done differently?
Thanks,
-- Tom
