HP Recovery Disc Creation Error

I just bought a new HP Pavilion 500 desktop AMD Elite Quad Core A8-6500 8GB memory 2TB hd, and I am trying to create recovery discs as recommended by the system using DVD+R (Memorex Brand) discs to complete this process. The program comes up, checks the disc I insert and tells me which type I have and that it will take 3 discs to complete the progess.
It then appears to be creating disc number 1.
However after completion, it says it is verifying the disc and then after about 15 minutes puts up an error message.
"An error occured while creating the disc. Try a new disc or choose a different high quality brand of disc and make sure all applications arre closed."
This whole process wastes about 30 minutes. However, I can see in windows explorer that the disc has been created and has files on it. I rebooted, started over and was able to create disk 1. Disk 2 would always error out at the end of the process. I spent hours last night trying 6 different disks until I gave up on Disk 2. Thinking I have a bad PC or drive, I tried ripping cd's and playing movies, all seemed to work ok.
I was really frustrated until I saw that 5 years after this 2009 post people are still having the exact same issue! So it is not just me.
I am giving up on recovery disks because I have already spent too much time and disks on it.
I will try the recovery usb and if that fails move on.

Additional information is below. I was surprised to see so many people with HP products having exactly the same problem. The recovery disk problem is very frustrating because you have to wait so long for it to error (30-45 min.) and it looks like it is working right up to the point it errors out at the end of the disc writing process.
1. Product name - HP Black 500-214 Desktop PC with AMD Elite Quad-Core A8-6500 Accelerated Processor, 8GB Memory, 2TB Hard Drive, purchased and unboxed yesterday
2. OS - Windows 8.1
3. Error Message - "An error occured while creating the disc. Try a new disc or choose a different high quality brand of disc and make sure all applications are closed."
4. Any changes made - No changes, this was right out of the box after I set up window 8.1.

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