Having trouble w/cd burning software

[marymc]

I have a lot of photos on my pc so I was going to archive them onto CDs. I generally shoot in RAW format and have decided to archive them in original TIFF format.

The problem I am having is with the CD burning software I think. Everytime I try to burn the cd's the files copy onto the cd and then I get an error message saying one or more files can't be verified. Data does not match orignal. When I look at the pictures on cd it seems to only mess up on one or two pictures out of around 20. I have tried this with different sets of tiff files with the same result.

My software is Record Now which came with the computer. HP has a slideshow creator but it converts the files to JPEG. Record Now is the only option I have on my computer for saving Tiff files to cd.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Does anyone recommend any particular software for cd writing of high resolution photos?

[sandman]

Mary
I use Roxio Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 .
Burns TIF & RAW files onto cd or dvd really fast , depending on the speed of your drives.
Also lets you cherry pick any combo of files from your hard drive .

Brian

[GaryB]

I use Nero Burning Rom and that's good too...

Gary

[Marcel F]

Mary ,

did you tried to slow your burner speed ?

Regards

Marcel

[marymc]

Thanks for all of your replies.

I have been looking at Roxio Easy CD & DVD creator v6. I almost bought it and then read some bad reviews on amazon regarding it messing up drive configuration with windows XP. It sounds like you are using it w/ any problems. Maybe the reviews were bogus. I am looking at a laptop that comes with the Roxio software cd so I think I will hold off on buying it for now.

Marcel thanks for the advice on write speed. I tried setting the write speed to the slowest setting and the cd was created w/o any errors. It took about 15 minutes but at least it's working now. yeah I don't have to go buy anthing new for now!!!

Thanks again.

[Andre]

Mary,
My experience in the past has been that Roxio software caused instability on my system, and incompatibilities with other things on my system.
I have had the best luck with Nero. It works every time, and I have had no stability issues.
Andre

[Marcel F]

Mary ,

Glad to see that you were able to burn...;)

Marcel

PS : I suppot André recommendation , NERO seems more stable ... That what I had before moving to MAC , 2 years ago ...