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ForHisGlory
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:21
I am having a problem guys. I have images that are perfect on my hard drive, I can open them, manipulate them and save them. HOWEVER, when I burn them onto a DVD, they are damaged and truncated. The ones on my drive, remain perfect but the ones on the DVD are destroyed.

Can anyone help me?
Damo77
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:23
Yeesh, that's scary.

Have you tried burning at slower speed? Have you tried different brands of media?
Anke
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:23
How are you copying them? Are you using a program to do it or just in the Finder/Explorer? What operating system?
ForHisGlory
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:25
no, same speed. using staples brand dvds, as i had some memorex that wouldnt burn at all.

Windows XP

Using NERO to burn them.
ForHisGlory
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:28
Yeesh, that's scary.

Have you tried burning at slower speed? Have you tried different brands of media?

We are burning them at 4X
Anke
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:29
Hmm, perhaps drive is on its last legs? Dust inside it or something? Perhaps try just dragging and dropping onto a blank DVD in Explorer (I presume Windows can do that)
ForHisGlory
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:30
The dvd drive you mean or the hard drive?
Anke
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 20:32
The dvd drive you mean or the hard drive?

DVD drive.
BSBXTi
3rd of August 2008 (Sun), 21:14
I agree with anke. It sounds like the DVD drive or software is causing the trouble.
Twitch1977
4th of August 2008 (Mon), 08:52
You should probably spring for some decent media like taiyo yuden's. Burning on crappy media is going to give you nothing but problems. Taiyo Yuden is probably making the best dvd media right now. Any online media store should have them.

Kurt
ForHisGlory
4th of August 2008 (Mon), 09:10
Thanks. The files I were trying to burn were on a Lexar PRO 8GB card. I called Lexar and they overnighted me a brand new one! I uploaded new images on a new card, edited in PS and burned with NO PROBLEMS. Guys, it had to have been a media card issue.
Anke
4th of August 2008 (Mon), 14:39
Thanks. The files I were trying to burn were on a Lexar PRO 8GB card. I called Lexar and they overnighted me a brand new one! I uploaded new images on a new card, edited in PS and burned with NO PROBLEMS. Guys, it had to have been a media card issue.

I'm confused. You mean you were burning straight from a CF card?! :confused:
ForHisGlory
4th of August 2008 (Mon), 15:48
no. i uploaded the card, the images when i tried to burn them were corrupted.
Bobster
4th of August 2008 (Mon), 16:03
how fragmented is the hdd?
Anke
5th of August 2008 (Tue), 03:40
no. i uploaded the card, the images when i tried to burn them were corrupted.

But I thought they showed as OK on the hard disk after uploading. Ah well, confusion aside, I'm glad it works now :)
tzalman
5th of August 2008 (Tue), 04:05
It's nice that you got a new card out of this, but I have a feeling the problem might return.
TeeJay
5th of August 2008 (Tue), 04:17
If they look fine on your hard drive then it can have nothing what-so-ever to do with the media card ???

TJ
Anke
5th of August 2008 (Tue), 11:52
If they look fine on your hard drive then it can have nothing what-so-ever to do with the media card ???

TJ


That's what confused me. I have a feeling this problem may resurface.