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Ellipsis1977
Jun 27, 2005, 03:19 AM
Hello! I've tried doing a quick search and have not been able to find anything on this, though I am sure that someone who knows his or her stuff will be able to give me a hand! :)

Basically what I am trying to do is burn data using Nero onto 800MB CD-ROMs. The problem is that the program and the computer recoginize my CD-ROMs as being 700MB discs!? Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm assuming at this point that it's the actual drive as I have used other programs like Nero to test things and they also say the same thing. Any ideas? Thank you very much.

tim081945
Jun 27, 2005, 01:52 PM
What is the CD writer you use? Is it possible that it won't recognise 800mb Cds, as not all of them will.

Fantasy
Jun 29, 2005, 10:34 PM
I've had this problem too..can anyone help? My burner is a JustLink (said to be products of Imation) and another new one is Lite-On. Both burners always detect the CD as 700MB even though I changed the yellow marker and red marker to 80 mins and 98 mins.

tim081945
Jul 01, 2005, 03:20 PM
Here's a link to a page that has 2 charts identifying CD writers that should detect 90min+ CDs
http://www.cdrdvdrmedia.com/hicd24xce90m.html

I've just picked this up from another forum (found using google)

"That's normal. Nero (and all other programs) will detect a 99 minute CD-R as only 80 minute (700MB). Just enable overburn in the setting menu "File, Preferences, Expert Features". Set it to 90:00 minutes. Then start recording. Nero will ask if you want to overburn. Select yes. Please note that not all recorders can do this."