DELL DATASAFE LOCAL BACKUP SHOWS ERROR WHEN 1ST DISC IS FINISHED

I had the same problem. I call it the hubbel space telescope titanic gambit. Hardware diagnostics testing the burner don't actually burn and try to verify a disc. After all the Dell support babble I finally insisted they put in a new DVD drive. That fixed the issue. The acid test of a drive is not a spindle test but a critical write read verify test actually burning a disc ala hubbel space telescope never actually tested optically on the ground. I've seen a lot of poor souls post this problem. In my case it originally burned two good discs and verify failed on the third. From there on in it kept failing in verify no matter what brand disc I tried. Dell reinstalled the program and it failed on disc one immediately in verify at 5% then a second try failed at 17%. I called support and insisted on a new drive. That did the trick I would consider a successfully recovery set the acid test of a drive, not a spindle test where no actual disc is made and verified. I hope this helps all the suffering people out there who painfully wasted a pile of discs trying to make a recovery set. If it fails in verify it's telling you the drive can't actually read what it wrote and in my case the original drive didn't fail until the third disc. I imagine there might be other causes but in my case it was the drive. TSST. Toshiba samsung storage technologies in an XPS 15.