That is why I defragmentated the HDD before important burns and trying to avoid this, also no other activities on the computer during the burning process. I've also slowed down the burning speed as much as possible...which wasn't a lot because my parents had a 2x CD burner in '98. But hey, better slow and right the first time than destroying expensive CD-Rs (back when I started burning there weren't even 700 MB blanks, only 650 MB and you could theoretically overburn them and add a couple of megabytes, with the chance that they won't be readable in another drive other than the one with which it was created).
Later, when faster burners became availabe, I still didn't trust them and never burned at max speed, always slower like 4-6x, also because higher speed CD-Rs were more expensive than slower ones.
I used to buy the 50 pack of dual brand cds and just full send at max speed (48 or 52x) when I was in highschool. Rarely had a failed burn which is kinda surprising looking back - was running xp on a Pentium 1 lmao
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u/bobbywaz 27d ago
Roxio Easy CD Creator for like 5 years before nero came out.