**1.**Turn off your screensavers .
**2.**Turn off the “CD auto-play” function .
**3.**When copying a CD, first copy it to your hard drive .
**4.**Use DAO(disk at once)instead of track at once, burning for audio CDs .With Disc at Once burning, the laser doesn’t shut off until the entire disc has been burned
**5.**Enable DMA on ur cd drive
**6.**Avoid cheap CDRs .Also ,if u ever spot blank cd-r’s with the audio/music caption ,its bcoz they are meant for a standalone cd writer(whole sale types) not for pc cd writers.well thats what they say !
**7.**Finalize your audio CD .
**If ur burning sensitive data,**follow the rest of the steps.
**8.**Defragment your hard drive before the burn - the data flow wont slow down as the computer attempts to locate all the data and will not cause any buffer underruns.But i doubt if its practical.
**9.**Disable Power Management, which can interrupt the recording, should be disabled before starting a CD/DVD burn
Then ofcourse thers the ‘make sure no scratches’ and ‘close other programs’ ,dont ,for better quality assurance reduce cdr burning speed ,also dont attempt to record data onto a disc over a network as may cause errors…etc which u may follow.
Other third party toools
Between a cdr/dvd combo and a dedicated cdr writer id go for the latter.And get a good writing software like Nero ,preferably the latest version .But now with dvd writers around cheap,it mught just change the way we see data recording .Cheers to technology !
