Cannot Complete the CD Writing Wizard

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Help...  'There was an error in the writing process.  The disc you have attempted to write may no longer be usable' - but I know its not the disc - I've tested it with many.   I've got an Dell XPS2200 with a Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B that came pre-loaded with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.1Basic direct from Dell.  OS is WinXP Home Edition SP2.  The thing has never succesfully written to a CD-RW - plain vanilla Maxells that are certified for 1x to 4x...or 4x-12x high speed Verbatim's... strange thing is it does seem to write to CD-Rs (?).    I removed (via add/remove progs in control panel) Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.1 from the system (error messages were different before doing this)... it seems like its going to work as it at least allows me to copy files to the staging area... and when I select 'Write these files to CD', it at least brings up the progress bar and appears to be writing the files... it sits at 5secs for a while and then pops up with the message at the top of this post.    Any help would be much appreciated.

klbf · Answer

i would try a test burn before final burn process 2 see if theres a firmware update to see if the meida might not be workign right... if all else fails try another brand of media

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Jim Hardin · Answer

I find it pretty hard to believe that any Dell XPS comes with software (Roxio V5) that has been out of production since 2003… ( re-reading, looks like you installed an old burner and the software that came with it)

If you wrote to any of these discs using anything but XP Burning it is most likely that they are finalized or in a format that is unusable for XP Burn.

Start with a totally blank disc and see how it performs.

Your RW media is High Speed media and cannot be written by that burner. For RW you must use Standard speed 1x-4x only. (-R media is less picky).

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Cannot Complete the CD Writing Wizard

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