I/O Error - Media or Drive?

I've been trying to get some insight on this and so far I haven't really found anything helpful. I have an AMD Athlon 64 3400+, with 1GB DDR400, WinXP SP2, and a Pioneer DVR-108 with firmware 1.14. I use DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink to make my backups. I bought a 100pk of RIDATA 8X DVD-R's Model DRD-478-RDCB100 and in the beginning I burned over 10 at speeds as high as 12X. Lately though, it seems whenenver I don't limit the burn to 4X (i.e. if I select a higher speed or MAX)I always end up with an I/O error at right about 97% while burning to DVD with DVDDecrypter. Is this just a media problem? I really hope so, but it doesn't seem to happen as much (but still does sometimes) at 4X speeds. I've been tossing a lot of DVD's because of this. I also have a Samsung W08A in my Athlon XP 2000+ computer and it also has the same I/O errors at about 97% completion sometimes if I don't limit the speed to 4X. If it's the disks how do you find the good media? I hear a lot of talk about RITEK G04's etc.. but how do you KNOW when you're buying RITEK G04's when you're in the store???? Also, if it COULD be the drive, what are some things that could be causing this? Anyways, I appreciate any help I get with this!

Your post was very hard to answer actually. You didnt help matters by not actually quoting the error message. Because you were burning the majority of the disc okay, I would have just said you had cheapo media - known to error out at the best of times! Of course you're denying that this was the problem, claiming that SP2 caused your problems. That kind of thing is impossible to diagnose without actually doing what you did - rebuilding the pc! The system rebuild should not have effected the error messages your system was throwing up, after all, they're supposed to come from the drive itself - which shouldnt give a monkeys about what software you have installed. Anyway, I'm glad you've fixed your problem by going back to SP1. For the media question, the simple answer is: You cant! Unless the dye id is specified on the packaging, you cant tell until you put the disc in the drive. That's why you don't buy these things from stores, but instead get them from online places that actually perform that little function on your behalf and then add it to the description of the product. Weird as it may seem, buying online is actually the safer option.

Is your 108 firmware 1.14 the hacked version?

for someone with only 3 posts to their name, you have done an excellent job of insulting the entire forum along with belittling the author of (one of) the best dvd rippers out there! conrgratulations! gold star for you :rolleyes:! if you hadnt realised, no-one on this forum gets paid to help others out. we do it because we have an interest in DVD/video conversion, and enjoy sharing that knowledge with the community. we are not here to serve you .. if no-one answers it is not because they are ignoring you but simply that they either do not know the answer, or that you had not provided sufficient details to get a correct response. now, if you HAD asked for the time of day, i would have happily replied with 'time.windows.com' and all would be well ... as it is, i believe you need a serious attitude re-adjustment before anyone will go out of their way to make your life easier.

Erm... Wow... If that was an apology I'd hate to see you when think your right.... anyway... I don't believe I have seen a time when Light_UK has ever insulted anyone short of maybe a few users requesting something that's extremely dumb... now... if you have a problem with DVDDecrypter forum, please keep it there... we don't want to mix problems here.. Now that aside, I personally am running Windows XP with SP2 and have no problems with it.. so I doubt that's your issue but good for you if it works... However I would tend to agree your media is probably touchy when it gets to the end of the disk... I've had a many brands that have issues. I personally stick w/ Ritek's / TDK / Verbatium Now the proper solution to your issue would be describe in more details the error.. send the error log and report any entry in your event logs.... If there ends up to be an actual issue with SP2.. then maybe you could have helped "The Author" fix it for yourself and future users.

I got an answer off another forum which probably makes more sense, and consequently is an even smaller problem than my earlier rants. The problem more than likely was due to DVD Shrink making my ISO's too large. So, as I was burning a DVD, it would almost finish and run out of space thus giving me an I/O Error stating a write error and that the media is an icompatible format. I believe that the reason the DVD's burned with no errors at 4X is probably due to overburning done by the drive. This is not the definitive answer, and I haven't had the chance to really investigate it, but this is the most likely the cause of the problems.