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thanks lightning going to take drive back and try the Lg brand the place i could find reveiws on said they were prety good .well the good thing at least i updated my nero from 6 to verison 8 thanks for the help will get back here if i need more help thanks again

to Shamus it looks like i'm using a 40 wire. Not sure if i can use an 80 wire. Is their a difference. I'm useing old optic plex gx110 p3. Can i use the 80 wire if so where can i get one (geek squad) or best buy .on the box it says that 80 wire ide cable is only need for 16x or higher dvd writing speed only burning at 4 or 2.4x speed=========================================================================== =========================================================================---- to Lighting PRICE didn't know that it was already three years old in the box,in the store were everything is new lol.they don't put that info on the outside .It shouldn't be to late to take back,Just bought yesterday at best buy. I'm not asking for indorsement .But what would you reconmend in the under 100 dollar range.Don't really need the light scribe scine the verbatim i'm using are not light scribleable. How are the Lg DVD burners=========================-----===========================================================================--to mmalves just updated to new version thanks everyone for the help

HI to all Went and bought my shinny new burner to day .Installed it and tried to use it and the below is what it gave me .DId I do something wrong or did it do it self tried to burn two different games back ups .because of little fingers. So if you could tell me what to do to fix this problem would be greatly appreciated and the simpler the term would really help. still learning .So thanks to all of you, who try to teach. I am using Verbatim disc. this is second log first was a mile long both had same error. ================================================================================ = PIONEER DVR-113NP 1.01 (ATA) Current Profile: DVD+R DL Disc Information: Status: Complete Erasable: No Sessions: 1 Sectors: 3,697,696 Size: 7,572,881,408 bytes Time: 821:44:46 (MM:SS:FF) DVD

Thank You Lighting UK and Cynthia. Guess it is time buy a new burner. going to try to clean it again.Do you have any suggestion on one for my puter optplex110 told ya antique 733 MHz p3 processor 512 ram Thanks again

tried at 4x speed and got new errors Failed to read sector -#- Reason L-EC Uncorrectable Error.So now what do i do. Any help is appreciated. thanks to youI 12:44:00 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 12:44:00 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 12:44:00 Total Physical Memory: 522,472 KB - Available: 181,672 KB I 12:44:00 Initialising SPTI... I 12:44:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 12:44:00 Found 1 CD-ROM, 1 DVD

thanks for the fast relpy the disc's are from Singapore learned the hard and expensive way bought memorex first NEVER AGAIN. as far as speed goes most of the post said burn'en slow The disc speed is 2.4 and the only thing lower was 1 will try again at 2.4 . As far as the drive the whole puter is an antique ,but it keep put ,puten along thanks agian for the advice .will clean it and speed it up and give it another try

what went wrong ,and how do I fix it Disc ID: MKM-001-00 Book Type: DVD+R DL Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,580,607 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,283,519 Physical Format Information (Last Recorded): Disc ID: MKM-001-00 Book Type: DVD-ROM Part Version: 1 Disc Size: 120mm Maximum Read Rate: Not Specified Number of Layers: 2 Track Path: Opposite Track Path (OTP) Linear Density: 0.293 um/bit Track Density: 0.74 um/track First Physical Sector of Data Area: 196,608 Last Physical Sector of Data Area: 16,450,783 Last Physical Sector in Layer 0: 2,110,367 I 01:32:40 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started! I 01:32:40 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 01:32:40 Total Physical Memory: 522,472 KB - Available: 217,028 KB I 01:32:40 Initialising SPTI... I 01:32:40 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 01:32:40 Found 1 CD-ROM, 1 DVD