I'm trying to complete the setup of a brand new Compaq Presario for my
church.

The step giving me trouble is creating the recovery discs. Believe me,
when something goes wrong & the thing is brought back to me, I want
those discs!

It offers to put them on 3 DVD's or 15 CD's. I chose DVD's.

The first one it made, it found an error during verification. Put in a
new one & it came out OK. Trying for disc 2, I've run 3 discs through
& all have come out as coasters.

That's 1 success out of 5.

What can I do to get this thing done without burning up a palette of
discs?!

Thanks in advance.

Daniel Wilson

firepower_50ae******.com wrote:
> I'm trying to complete the setup of a brand new Compaq Presario for my
> church.
>
> The step giving me trouble is creating the recovery discs. Believe me,
> when something goes wrong & the thing is brought back to me, I want
> those discs!
>
> It offers to put them on 3 DVD's or 15 CD's. I chose DVD's.
>
> The first one it made, it found an error during verification. Put in a
> new one & it came out OK. Trying for disc 2, I've run 3 discs through
> & all have come out as coasters.
>
> That's 1 success out of 5.
>
> What can I do to get this thing done without burning up a palette of
> discs?!
Try a regular burner program to verify that the drive works in that mode.

Clean the lens.

Use rewritables.

I don't understand the process, but my compaq allows only one copy of
the disks to be made. Not sure if a bad burn counts as a (the) copy
made...

Programs that access the drive directly have to make some assumptions
about the speed and quality of the disks you're using. I have the same
problem with Acronis True Image. Won't make a DVD backup, just ejects
the disk saying it's bad. Ghost works just fine with that drive and disk.
Different brand may work better.
mike

>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Daniel Wilson
>