CD Burning question

[GT98]

I was talking to my systems administrator this morning and they are running into a problem with this piece of software they are using. What is happening is that when they burn a copy of the program they install, the copied CD transfers the files HD at a much slower rate then the Orginal CD does. He was telling me its like a 5 to 1 difference between the two. The CD was burned using lastest EzCd creator 5 with the data getting saved the the HD before getting getting burned to the CD.

In all my years of Coping CDs I've never run into a problem like this...any suggestions?

[Nowhere]

Some old cdroms (or even not very old, but just crappy) and first dvdroms I've seen had huge probems with reading cdrw's and even cdr's...what are the ones used there?
Or did they try burning at much lower speed and saw any differences after that?

[Gurm]

Could definitely be, as Nowhere pointed out, the drive. Lots of drives have much slower speeds for CD-R or CD-RW. In fact, even MODERN drives have much lower speeds, it's just that you can't tell as much when it's 36x instead of 48x. But when it's 1x instead of 12x... that's a big deal.

Or, it COULD be the way it was burnt. EZ Coaster Creator is a BOD.

Gpar_

[GT98]

Well the machines they are burning and putting them on are 4 month old Dell Workstations. As far as I know...the CDs they are making copies of are copies of the orginal CD.

[Gurm]

Have them try using the Nero demo, or the RecordNow demo.

Gpar_

[Kooldino]

Single track, closed session, DAO?

[Wombat]

Crappy CD-Rs?