Mark wrote:
This may be OT for this NG, so I'm begging the indulgence of
knowledgeable people.

I'm at my wits' end. I've been struggling with this for
about 6 weeks now, and am in desperate need of advice.

I'm running Win98SE, using a compatible Mitsumi drive, and
the following has occurred with All of the following, All in
the same way; ECDC 4.0, ECDC 5 Platinum (without and with
current Roxio upgrades), Nero (current 5.X download
version), and Stomp RecordNow Max (current download
version).

In every case, I can record audio CDs without any
difficulty.

Recently, after the purchase of a digital camera, I've
started to try to record photo (data) CDs. In every
attempt, the process appears to go normally through all the
burn stages. Once complete, if I let the software verify,
it fails. If I look at what's on the disc with Windows
Explorer, it will show "Track01.cda" at 44 bytes

Look at an audio disk in Windows Explorer - it will show TrackNN.cda, 44
bytes for each audio track.

Your software has burned your data as audio, most likely because that's
what you asked it to do.

Sorry to be blunt, but RTFM.

, and that's
all. A visual of the disc, however, clearly shows that an
appropriate amount of space has been burned.

I've tried every option I can find that seems reasonable
while recording, including multisession, closing the CD,
using the wizard, doing it manually, various files and
folders (including many that were just data, not JPGs), and
so on.

As I've researched this, I've learned that Roxio/Adaptec
doesn't play well with others, so I uninstalled these and
erased every entry in the registry and ini folders that I
could find that appeared related.

No matter what I try, the results are always the same.
We're approaching the definition of insanity here.

I've come to the conclusion that the issue isn't the burning
software, but something else, possibly in Windows itself,
but I have no idea what it may be.

I'm looking for any pointers that may help.

Thanks,