cd/dvd burning problems

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For the past few months, my dvd burner will not completely burn cds or dvds.
It burns partially (maybe 4 songs out of 20) and partially burns dvd home
video etc... to disk too. Then I get an error message saying burn failed.
I have tried this with several different software programs and get the same
result. Before I reformat the hard drive, or take the computer to a shop, I
wondered if anyone has encountered this before and do you think it is a
software problem, or has my burner failed? I have an HP Media Center 873n.
Thanks for any insight.

Karen

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Thanks Will. I will check it out!

"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uZSUJN7qEHA.1644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hi Karen
>
> Please try the following article by Alex Nichol
>
> "Burning CDs in Windows XP"
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
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>
> "Karen" <woolie1@nocomcast.net> wrote in message
> news:e5jEY06qEHA.644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> For the past few months, my dvd burner will not completely burn cds or
>> dvds. It burns partially (maybe 4 songs out of 20) and partially burns
>> dvd home video etc... to disk too. Then I get an error message saying
>> burn failed. I have tried this with several different software programs
>> and get the same result. Before I reformat the hard drive, or take the
>> computer to a shop, I wondered if anyone has encountered this before and
>> do you think it is a software problem, or has my burner failed? I have
>> an HP Media Center 873n. Thanks for any insight.
>>
>> Karen
>>
>
>