Burning CDs won't finish.

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Burning CDs won't finish.

Whenever I burn CDs in iTunes, the timer reaches the end, and then the dialogue changes to "Burning - Finishing" or something like that. Shortly after, the disc ejects, and iTunes displays a warning that the drive had an error and didn't respond. The CD still plays, but the last track won't work. This happens no matter what size playlist. Any ideas?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Oct 8, 2006 10:51 AM

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Answer 1

Food? Author

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Oct 8, 2006 12:05 PM in response to Food?

It also does it when I try to burn a disk image, both using Disk Utility as well as Toast. The discs get about 1/4th of the way through, and then I'm given some sort of "write error" message, and the disk is ejected.

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iVmichael

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Oct 8, 2006 9:10 PM in response to Food?

How much free hard drive space have you got left ?

(It makes a copy of the image to burn and possibly you don't have enough space for the file, or it's not deleting the temp files as it should)

Have you tried with another brand of media to eliminate that as a possible cause ?

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Answer 3

Oct 11, 2006 7:32 AM in response to iVmichael

I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to backup 2.64GB of data to a DVD-R. I've tried using the finder to burn the disk and also Toast Titanium and I get the error when it trying to write the lead out. I've tried it different media so I don't think media is the problem. My HD has 7.26GB left on it. My drive is Matshita UJ-857. Any ideas?

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Food? Author

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Dec 27, 2006 9:06 PM in response to Food?

Fixed it by decreasing the burn speed. Only problem now is it takes a little longer, but at least it gets all the data on, and it's not like I'm pressured for time.

Thanks though.

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