8340S: Blew away OS and will no longer burn

Hello people,
I recently blew my machine away and reloaded with W2K Pro. However,
now when I try to burn with the 8340S burner, it doesn't work.
Again, I am running W2K pro, and the burner is CDRW 8340S. I am using
W2K drivers, date 11.14.1999, v. 5.0.2183.1 I can get the drive to read CDs but the error message "bad medium" occurrs when I try to use my adaptec software to burn cds.
Please help!
Bob

Try this:
1. Instead of burning directly to disc, use the option in iDVD to output to a disc image
2. Upon completion of creating the disc image, use Apple Disk Utility to burn the image to your new media
If that fails, it is likely a media issue; your drive is not compatible with your new media.
Outside of this, something else you can try is to simply see if the disc can be burned using Finder. While in Finder, you can mount writable discs in your drive for backing up files and folders. If Finder cannot mount and write to the disc, again you have a media issue.
What to do?
Wait for Apple to update the drive firmware to handle newer media; or get an external drive that is newer; or purchase new media. The latter is your cheapest and most timely solution.
I've got quite a selection of media here and seem to notice that some brands give me the most problem. I've found that Verbatim, Sony, Fuji, TDK, and Taiyo-Yuden seem to give predictable results time and time again.
My most recent failure was with some off-brand +R DL media I picked up at a Frys sale. While trying to burn a Snow Leopard install disk, I had 3 failures in a row - drive recognized the disc and burned it, but it would not verify. Going back to one of my tried and true brands resulted in success on the first try.
Caveat Emptor.
Mike

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