Strange Reading With Nero and my DVD-R Media

[J8son]

If any of you have Nero your probably familiar with it's ScanDisc feature it has in its tool box. This allows you to scan the integrity of your media with a File Test and a Surface Scan.

I was testing a stack off all DVD-Rs I had burned a few months back when I got a strange result on the very last one.

The first scan (done in my bottom Mad Dog DL DVD+-RW burner) came back with the following results:

Errors: 2
Readable Sectors: 99.3%
Unreadable Sectors: .70%

I then place the same DVD-R in the top burner (also an identical model Mad Dog DL DVD+-RW burner) and got a clean reading:

Errors: 0
Readable Sectors: 100%
Unreadable Sectors: 0%

This puzzled me so I took the disc out, cleaned it and put it back in the drive I did the scan in originally (the bottom Mad Dog burner) and, again got the original error reading:

Errors: 2
Readable Sectors: 99.3%
Unreadable Sectors: .70%

Any reason why two identical model burners setup exactly the same would get two different readings for the same disc? Could it be a faulty drive?

[photo_angel2004]

could be a number of things was anything different running in the background while burning one from the other?

Could have been a bad disc, could be a number of things do you have a burn log?

[J8son]

Nope, exactly the same setup for during both tests. I repeated these tests several times to make sure, with the same results.