Sorry for getting OT here jack. This is my last one. ;-). I've noticed the same kind of failure once in a while from my CD-R. Before throwing that disk away. Try re-booting the computer with the disk still in the drive. On my system. I can then retry to write to the disk and it has always worked and I didn't waste a disk because of the first failure. Next time you get a bad session. Try it. Hopefully you'll save a disk or two. scottA iamsba@aol.com