error verifying burnt DVDs
Guys, I'm hoping you can point me in the right direction here...
I have a Pioneer DVR-110 burner with latest firmware. It's burnt probably over a thousand DVDs and CDs over the last year or two I've had it.
Recently, I've been burning some of my backup images from an ISO file back onto disc. Whilst the burn goes through fine, I then noticed some discs didn't boot in my regular dvd video player. So I burnt another copy using nero and did an image verification. Turns out there are some unreadable sectors at the end of the disc. :confused: Hmmm so there's my problem. :)
I put this down to cheap media I was using, and I thought that cheap media was particularly prone to bad burns at the edge (end) of the disc. However, I then burnt a shorter ISO image which was only 3 gig or so. Same problem, bad unreadable sectors at the end of the burn (which is now the middle of the disc). :O_o1::confused::confused:
As a last ditched attempt, I burnt some images using my GF's PC which has a Sony DVD writer in it. Did a verification at the end, no problems. Oooooh I though. Burnt a load more different images, and same thing, all ok :)
So I'm now wondering where the problem lies. Both our systems use the same version of XP, both are similar platforms (AMD nforce 4), both use the same version of nero 7.5.7.5.
The biggest difference points to the actual DVD burner, but what do you think? Can these "wear out" ? Of course, it's only 20 quid or so to get another burner, but just don't want to do that unless I'm pretty sure that's the cause of the problem. My old pio 110 is fine in every other aspect.
Thoughts?
TIA :)