Padding Iso damaging drives??

Hi,

Does not padding an iso to a proper disc size damage the drive/laser or will it just make the disc not run at all??

Also, my disc is being burnt at different speeds (2X to start with and then 4X half way through - such is the config of my drive...). Will this have a risk of damaging my Wii drive as well??

Thanks for your answers!

 

I imagine you are talking about padding ISOs so they are read properly and I would worry about lazer damage tbh. I wouldn't worry about auto speed burns either but I don't understand why you can't fix the speed of the burn using the software - i.e fix it at 4x. I have never heard of this before.

 

The padding is there to assist the disc in the reading process. The wii may think its a GameCube disc.

The original file is small, imagine a few hundred kilbytes on a dvd-r which holds 4.7 gbites. It may not burn properly, finalise a disc, or even be read correctly.

The padding is there to assist and cannot do any harm. Suffice to say, many burn firmware without padding and have no issues.

 

Thanks for the replies,

I'm more worried about the different burn speeds. My laptop writer writes slow (2x) first and then fast half way (4x). On the disc itself, I can see there are 2 slightly different shades on the burn areas (where the speed changed I'm assuming).

My Wii makes quite a bit of "disk noise" like its loading something periodically. I know its meant to load now and again, but do your wii drives make noise say once every few seconds???

Thanks for answers!

 

Are you using imgburn to burn the disks?

 

yes and burn speed set to "max"...it appears my laptop drive can only do 2x max at the beginning and then 4x later when it gets to the outer section of the disc.

Anyone have any more input to my post above??

Thanks

 

Why set it to max? - set it to 4x as I said earlier.

 

Well I will be setting it to 4X now. But I was thinking of the discs that I burnt already...whether they will damage the drive?

PS: playing originals have a continuous and uniform whirring of the disc with not much seeking noises. It so happens that iso's have much less whirring and much more seeking...

 

Any disk that isn't certified by Nintendo has the potential to cause damage to the drive. As to whether it will or won't definitely cause damage, I think it's a grey area. The vast majority have no problems when burning on good media.

 

I'm burning on Verbatim media, which I hear is the choice for burning discs.

I've just tried to burn them at 2x constant on my PC (not laptop now) and still I get the Wii drive expressing lots of constant drive-seeking (or some people call it "clicking"?) noises.

A lot less of such sounds with originals...oh well...

 

I would put it in bubble wrap


Works for everything!

 

What makes you think that 2x is better than 4x? - If you think slower the better then you are way off the mark. There will be an optimal burn speed depending on how the burner works with the media in conjunction with the type of data it is writing and it won't necessarily be 1x either. It could actually be 8x or 16x. 4x is the most commonly successful speed for single layer Wii disks and therefore it's why it's generally recommended. If that doesn't work THEN try other speeds.