DKR Computing

I'e been getting a bit frustrated the last couple of days. I've been trying to burn a DVD on my Macbook but keep getting an error saying it was unable to burn the disc due to a medium write error. I used to believe that this was simply a problem with the particular disc I was trying to burn to and would simply try another one. However, it kept happening over and over no matter how many different discs I tried. I had finally resorted to using an old, yet reliable, external USB burner but that was giving me fits as well so I decided to look into the possibility of a software issue. I went searching through Apple's online discussion area and various other sites I found through Google and many of them talked about the problem starting after some Apple software updates to iTunes and other packages. Having just gone through my semi-annual system rebuild I was not interested in reinstalling my system just to burn a DVD and then try to track down exactly which software update broke the burning capability. At least, not on my current hard drive.

Fortunately, I am a hardware packrat and keep just about all my old hardware so I dug out my original hard drive for the Macbook and temporarily installed it. I'm currently installing Leopard. Once that's done I will try and burn the DVD again. Hopefully that will work. If it does, I'll keep the old hard drive around with Leopard and put it in an external enclosure to boot from next time I have burning problems. Either way, I'll follow up on this post and let you know how it goes.

Later,
Keith