I burned an ISO image of a downloaded file on a cd with Nero 7 in Windows XP. Before burning, I had done checksum to see if the downloaded file on my hard drive was fine, and it was. The burn operation also seemed to go off well. But the burned CD appears blank when I insert it into into the CD/DVD drive. Windows sees nothing in it. I would really appreciate help with this.
try burning the iso with imgburn, its free and burns iso's better then nero http://www.imgburn.com/ is it only your computer that reads it as blank? what media are you using? -tripplite
those are cds. i didn't notice if finalised or not ... did not do anything with the settings myself. going to burn another one, and finalize it. thanks for pointing this out!
tell us how it turns out btw nero is such a drag, i suggest you just use imgburn for iso's as with it you just can't wrong
will do, monday or later. btw, before using nero, i had burned another cd with infrarecorder. same result.
i have seen on dvdrs that blank are seen in a pc after burning a movie the discs arnt read, so changing dvdr brand works there this could be the same for cds not sure, first time i read this if it is the case. are they music cds? do they play on a standalone music cd player ok, not a pc.
Thanks so much for pointing this out! These are Memorex "printable CD-R"s. The pack says "recordable fr computer CD writers". I wonder if they are not recordable for DVD writers - which is what I have on my laptop. Monday, I'm going to find a computer with a CD writer, burn another of these disks on it, and see what happens.
no a dvd+rw burner will burn a CD-r the same as a CD-RW burner can you go into the device manager and tell us what is the brand+name of your burner? -tripplite
sorry, the piont was cheap media has been known to be read when blank (nothing wrote to it) then when burnt the pc doesnt read it, this maybe the case here with cdrs. as mentioned a dvdRW writes both cdrs and dvdrs! are they music cds? do they play on a standalone music cd player ok, not a pc.
sorry for not responding to your question about music player earlier. i don't have one, so can't tell. if the cds are bad, there's nothing to be done other than throwing them away and trying to get a refund. before that, i should probably try with a different computer. incidentally, i have had some trouble with regular data dvds (documents, not images) in the past, though never this much. i use nero usually, because of its convenient backup/update functionality. after i burn a dvd for the first time, on every subsequent occasion when i insert it into the drive for updating the file set, it takes several ejections and insertions - sometimes ten or more - before windows reads the disk properly and i can use nero. and those are different brands, not memorex. but then, when i insert a music cd or a video cd, it plays just fine. does this say anything to you? thanks! sorry, the piont was cheap media has been known to be read when blank (nothing wrote to it) then when burnt the pc doesnt read it, this maybe the case here with cdrs. as mentioned a dvdRW writes both cdrs and dvdrs! are they music cds? do they play on a standalone music cd player ok, not a pc. [/quote]
i mean, music disk or video disk. there's no problem with those as far as i can tell, whether they are cds or dvds.
i missed a point again! no, the image i was burning was not of a music cd. it's ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron.
