My mac will not burn a photo to disk

My mac will not burn an image or tex to a cd or dvd disk. I did a hardware check and that came back o k. When I hit burn to disk the drive works for about 3 mins. and then stops and ejects the d*** disc* saying there was an error. disk burn cannot be re started. Any Ideas?
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This particular forum is dedicated to older non-intel-based iMacs, which can't run OS 10.8. You might have better luck re-asking your question in this forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/desktop_computers/imac_intel
But I suggest the following:
Try opening Applications> Utilities> Disk Utility> Repair Disk Permissions.
Good luck.

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