'08 MBP burning bad DVD's

Drew384 · Drew384 #1 (**permalink**)

05-18-2011, 12:05 AM

I use Roxio Toast Titanium to burn discs and other than the drive occasionally refusing to give a disc back, I've never had any issue with it burning discs. But suddenly, it's burning one faulty DVD after another. It seems if I burn one at about half capacity, it'll be fine, if I do about 3-3.5GB about 1/4 of the data will error, and a full disc the entire thing will be unreadable.

I haven't changed anything with the software and I'm using the same pack of discs that I've used without issue for the last year. Any idea what might be going on?

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

05-18-2011, 12:41 AM

Sounds like the optical drive is failing or the lens may be dirty. Buy a can of compressed air at Radio Shack or other electronic store and use to blow a couple of blasts inside the drive. If that doesn't work, it may be time to replace the drive.

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 31,968 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	05-18-2011, 12:41 AM Sounds like the optical drive is failing or the lens may be dirty. Buy a can of compressed air at Radio Shack or other electronic store and use to blow a couple of blasts inside the drive. If that doesn't work, it may be time to replace the drive. Community Guidelines
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Drew384 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jun 12, 2009 Posts: 23	05-18-2011, 12:05 AM I use Roxio Toast Titanium to burn discs and other than the drive occasionally refusing to give a disc back, I've never had any issue with it burning discs. But suddenly, it's burning one faulty DVD after another. It seems if I burn one at about half capacity, it'll be fine, if I do about 3-3.5GB about 1/4 of the data will error, and a full disc the entire thing will be unreadable. I haven't changed anything with the software and I'm using the same pack of discs that I've used without issue for the last year. Any idea what might be going on?
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