What's your OS (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 98, Windows 7)?
What burning program are you using?
Can you burn other data, like a folder of word processing documents?
When I burn data on my XP machine using Nero (the OEM version 6), it has a validate option. That checks the disk after burning to see if it contains exactly what was written to it during the burning process. And it ends with something like "Validation had 0 errors." And, indeed, the data is on the disk after that.
Kees
this is an erratic headache i'm experiencing. pentax S41 digicam. i can view and select pics, presumably burn them onto a CD, finalize so they can be viewed on other computers, and for whatever reason no pics on the CD. am i missing something, as there is no error message encountered along the way

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