Robert,
I had some problems with burning iso images on my XP Prof machine using a Plextor drive and Alcohol 120. Tom Michell had a few suggestions for me and you can search the archives to read them in depth. He explained why the check sums are not a guarantee that the image is good. However, I just slowed the burn speed down and I haven't have any problems since.
As far as Roxio goes, I've never liked it. It has come free with almost every CD burner that I have ever owned, but I always end up buying another product.
If your media is good and slowing down the burn speed doesn't fix the problem you can down load a free trial copy of a dozen or so other products and try them out. The thing about Alcohol that I like is that it doesn't leave any processes running like Real Player, Acrobat, and Nero when you shut it down.
HTH Dwaine
On Sun, 30 May 2004 14:20:32 -0400, Dwaine Castle wrote:
Robert,
I had some problems with burning iso images on my XP Prof machine using a Plextor drive and Alcohol 120. Tom Michell had a few suggestions for me and you can search the archives to read them in depth. He explained why the check sums are not a guarantee that the image is good.
Checksums do guarantee that the _image_ is good. But after you burnt an image to CD/DVD, you need to re-run a checksum test in order to verify that the burnt data are correct. Either use the built-in media-check feature of the boot CD or read out the images again (e.g. with the readcd utility). The checksum should still be the same.