Could not initialize disc burning engine???

Question

For the last few months, any time that I try to burn a DVD I get this error.
I have tried working around the problem by burning to a folder, but PE doesn't do anything (just says 'burning to a folder' and stays on 0%).
Any ideas on why it's doing this or what I could try to do to solve the problem?
Thanks!
Erik

Answer 1

Thanks, Steve, for the info. Here's what I've done:
1. I'm able to create a pure AVI project. I do that and then go to share to disc and get the same error ' could not initialize disc burning engine'.
2. I am not able to burn to a folder. It acts like it will do it, but then it justs sits on 0% and does nothing.
3. I have defragmented, cleaned-up, run antivirus, etc and still have the same problems.
I have gone through your faqs on optimizing vista, maintaining computer for best performance, etc and I'm still having this (and other problems - like the one you were previously helping me with - can't add titles without the program crashing).
The computer is an HP DV2500 with 2.0 Ghz centrino duo and 2.0 Gb RAM and 160 Gb hard drive. I've update my graphics card driver and checked for updates to the DVD burner. 20 Gb is free on the hard drive and I get these same errors for any size (even 10 second) project that I'm working on.
Is there any other further advice that you might be able to give me?
Thanks,
Erik