Consider the following scenario:

• On a computer that is running Windows Vista Ultimate or Windows Vista Home Premium, you have pictures that are stored on a hard disk drive.
• In Windows Vista Media Center, you use the Library Setup Wizard to add the root of the hard disk drive to the list of folders that Media Center watches for media files.
• You start the Burn CD/DVD Wizard in Media Center, you add pictures from Picture Library from the folder that represents the root of the hard disk drive, and then you start the burn process.

In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

BURN FAILURE
An error has occurred in burning the CD/DVD

When you try to burn 7.8 gigabytes (GB) of data or more to a DVD+R Dual Layer (DL) disc on a Windows Vista-based computer, the operation may fail. This problem may occur even though the capacity of the disc has not been reached. This issue may occur on some dual-layer DVD burners whose firmware performs a consistency check on the command length.

When you use Windows Media Player to burn a CD or a DVD in Windows Vista, the CD or DVD burner drive may not be visible in Windows Media Player.

Consider the following scenario:

• On a Windows Vista-based computer, you use Mastered mode to burn a file to a writable DVD that has a 4.7-gigabyte (GB) capacity.
• The DVD already contains a file that is larger than 2 GB.

In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

There was an error burning this disc. The disc might no longer be usable.

Consider the following scenario. You use the Mastered file system format to copy files to a CD or to a DVD on a Windows Vista-based computer. You click Burn to disc on the toolbar to burn the files to the disc. Before the computer finishes burning the files to the disc, you put the computer to sleep. In this scenario, the disk creation does not finish after you wake the computer from sleep. You receive an error message that resembles the following:

There was an error burning this disc. The disc may no longer be usable.

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When you try to burn files to a writable CD disc or to a writable DVD disc in Windows Vista, you receive the following error message:

There was a problem burning this disc.
There was an error burning this disc. The disc might no longer be usable.

Consider the following scenario. On a Windows Vista-based computer, you insert a writeable DVD into the computer’s DVD drive, and then you click Burn files to disc. Next, you click Show formatting options in the Burn a Disc dialog box, and then you click Mastered to burn the DVD by using the Mastered format. In this scenario, incorrect recording speeds are displayed in the Recording speed list in the Burn to Disc dialog box.

For example, if the DVD drive supports an 8x recording speed, Windows Vista displays 3x, 3x, 2x, 1x, and 1x in the Recording speed list. Therefore, you cannot select the correct recording speed for the DVD drive.