Nero burning ROM 6 - Overburn???

[trav]

Hi there, I have blank CD's and they are 700MB (702 exact) but i have a file thats 716MB, i have heard of overburning a CD, so i can fit more than the actual CD right? How do i do this in Nero 6?

[Carskick]

I have Nero 6 as well. Overburning is meant only if you have specials CDs and a Special CD-R/CD-RW drive. Trying to overburn on 702MB CDs with a standard CD-R/CD-RW drive, will most likely either fail, loose info at the end, or damage your drive. I do not reccomend it. Could you compress the file with WINZIP or WINRAR? That'd probably be your best bet if possible. If you have a bunch of CD-R/CD-RW drives lying around, go for it. Otherwise, don't do it. If you want to do it, you can by going to file, perefrences, then to the expert features tab. You can set it up there if you are willing to take the risk. Good Luck!

[trav]

Actually, Thanks Carskick, im not going to try it, as of i dont want  to damage my drive :)

[Chandler]

Start up Nero Burning ROM (not Nero Express) and go to Recorder menu, Choose Recorder.  Have a look at where it says Overburn.  If it says Supported, then you can enable the feature...

1) Go to File menu, Preferences, Expert Features
2) Tick the Enable Overburn Disc-at-once burning
3) The default overburn time is 82min, which is the normal capacity.  You can often get another 5 minutes out of regular media, if you buy the 90min/99min discs you can adjust it accordingly.  Note, most overburnable drives can handle the 90min discs, but only a few can do the full 99min, LGs being the exception (and some others).

One other thing to do, is never burn in Mode 2/XA, it lacks error correction.  Always burn in Mode 1.

[trav]

Thanks for all the help, the files burned sucseffully :) without overburning, turns out, what i had burned was 701MB and the whole CD was 702MB

[iansl]

82, 90, 99 min? How much storage is that? Also, I'm thinking of getting Nero 6 Ultra for audio editing, video editing, and burning. How will it do?