Nero Hanging While Burning DVD - HELP PLEASE!!

Hi folks, I'm trying to burn files to a DVD using Nero 6.3.1.6 on Windows
2000 SP4 and its all going wrong! The disk got a mere 4% in and is now doing
nothing - no activity on the drive and nothing happening with Nero (though
it is still responding).

I've used Nero with my DVD writer on numerous occasions without a problem,
however I had this particular issue happen once before and it ended up
destroying the DVD writer, hence my concern now. When it happened before,
nothing I could do could get the drive to respond or open, and when I tried
the old 'pin in the hole' trick, it opened ok but must have bust something
inside as it never worked again ;(

So, any thoughts would be massively appreciated as it'll save me some money!
I've seen posts, etc online suggesting a compatibility problem with IMAPI,
but I don't have that listed in services to disable or do anything else with
so I'm totally stumped.

Thanks in advance.

 

It's possible that you have ANOTHER fried drive. That's the
first thing to check.

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Thanks Mike. I've one other DVD drive which looks to be working fine. 3.5"
drive is fine too as are the HDDs. The problem one doesn't open when I try
via the button. Its not looking good!

 

Not knowing your machines config (having the source and the burn drive on
the same ide channel is not a good idea) burn your info to the c (whatever)
drive as an image using the option in nero (image recorder) then burn to
dvd fom there.
You may be exceeding the capabilities of your machine (create image and
burn), lack of memory/dedicated hd space etc.
As usual check the seating of the cable to the dvd drive and or replace with
a better quality one.
Only as a last resort should you consider updating the units firmware,as you
are as likely to totaly fubar it rather than fix,it did work,it should work
again.
There again the drive could be shot

 

I would switch to another make and/or supplier, if you have
been using the same one.

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