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Originally Posted by shadowalker
The software reports a complete burn but when i put the disk in a seprate drive its still blank
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Well the other system not recognizing the disk and the disk actually being blank are two very different things. You can visually inspect the writeable side of a CD-R to see if it's been written to. The written portion will have a different reflective color or hue when held at the right angle. Unwritten portions will look "shinier". If you burn a 500MB file to a CD-R and there is no noticeable "written" portion on the disk, then your laser is probably toasted. If your disk is actually getting written to, then it might just be a simple software or hardware problem (bad IDE cable -> incorrect data being written, for example).