Hi , I was trying to burn legal music , mix and match from other cds I have already created. I lost all my music on PC when it crashed. I used MM to rip my cds back onto my pc. I get 43% into a cd and get an error on whatever song is on the 43% mark. I have tried CDBurnerXP, WinMedia player, MM, Record now delux, many other rippers and 10 cds later, I get the same thing from each program. I tried to rip from different types of programs as listed above, rip ok, play ok, will only burn half disk. All in MP3 by the way. Also I have two dvd\cd burners, one new one about 2 years old. This problem seemed to just start happening. I have an Emachines pc, 512 ram, one 200 gig and one 80 gig hd, xppro, 1.75g athlon.

I tried unhooking\uninstalling one drive at a time, take out one hard drive at a time, sys restore, IRQ conflicts, driver, firmware, cleaning lenses, different disks, complete sys diagnostic, mem checked out, drives checked out, hds checked out, no issues. I also tried, (deep breath), uninstalling all updates, reinstalling dvdrom software, uninstalling all extra software, checked ide cables, changed them, checked power supply, Buffer settings good, event viewer which gave me this...

An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation.
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Cdrom
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 1/13/2006
Time: 2:19:52 PM
User: N/A

I have looked up this issue and others have had it but no one seems to know why. Also, I deleted the upper and lower filters in reg edit, which is typically to restore your drives if not detected but I figured, what the heck. Didn't work. I personally think it's a software conflict somewhere along the line, perhaps with some windows update. I think I have gone through this pretty thoroughly but if any other suggestions are out there then please let me know. My emachines dvd\cd r\rw is about 2 years old, my dual layer dvd\cd\r\rw is only a few months old.
Thanks for any help. I was referred to this site by other sites and hope someone can offer a suggestion or if have had same problem. Thanks in advance.

Comicfan

My guess would be a software thing, such as somebody's version of copy protection, or some malware like a virus. What happens if you try to write a CD full of data? Does that also stop part way through?

Oh, I guess you are writing data (mp3), not making audio CDs?

Hi, thanks for the reply. There should be no copy protection, the songs are legal dowloads, bought and paid. Also, I have mixed and burned a cd from these songs before and I simply ripped them from my created cds, when my hard drive went bad, I never backed up my songs since they were mixed over many cds. I did not use copy protection when I created them either. Also, I create playable audio cds, not data for my disks. I should mention, I tried converting to different formats just to see if they would burn, even wma. No go.
As far as data goes, yes, I have a problem also, most of the data cd\dvd will burn but I get an error stating some of the files did not match. These are the same files I have backed up many times, pics, downloaded exe , word docs...etc...
I have no malware or viruses and scan just about every 6 hours (when possible) manually, plus have real time scanners in all areas, yes a bit paranoid but I have had no viruses in 6 years so I must be doing something right. I state this simply so you know I am no stranger to this, but I have quite a bit of experience in pcs and fix them \networks, etc...to cut it short. However, this one has gotten the best of me.
The next step I will take is to pull the cmos battery for about 10 seconds, there may be an IDE conflict that's not showing up. I have all my settings correct , checked cmos , and I simply don't get it. I also loaded my backup boot OS which is the bare bones of XP, even before XP updates and still had the same problem. It must be from the drives down to the MB somewhere. If the MB contollers are bad, well it's time for a new one I guess. I was hoping someone else had this happen and it was a registry file or something on that order but I don't think it is. Wish I had benching equipment for this type of issue but currently everything is manual for me, until I get my shop open. I never heard of drives just partly burning, reading fine, extracting data from cd\dvd, fine. Anyhow, I am going to pull the cmos battery and see what happens. Thank you anyway, much appreciated.
Comicfan

Just a quick update to this problem. I pulled the CMOS battery, put it back in, the pc booted up and all drives now work fine. I don't have a ryme or reason but there must have been some conflict somewhere. Thanks for any help given.

Comicfan