overburning damage???
 

ok well recently ive noticed my burner will say a cd is too small if the image or files im burning are close to the cd size but still several mb under... i have used my drive to overburn cds in the past... but i always check the spindle and then burn like 20 seconds under the overburn time of the cd...

could the overburning have damaged my cd drive?

im using an ASUS CRW-4012a burner and nero burning rom to burn...

has this happened with more than one brand/type of cd-r? Maybe the CDs you're using are the problem, not the drive?

ive tried with my memorex... some cheap generic ones from a neighber... some maxwells from a friend...

exact same thing on all the cds... and it burned fine earlier on my spindle of memorex...

I'm not entirely sure here, but nero may not leave space for its lead-out when it shows its size, but does when it does a burn.

If it consistantly overburns fine (even when the overburn is under CD capacity), then your drive is probably fine.

no... it wont overburn anymore... it wont burn anything thats close to the maximum size of the cd... gotta keep it a good bit below the max size...

650MB or 700MB CDs?

all the ones ive tested have been 700.... nobody uses 650s very much...

that is what my I/O magic drive started doing about 1 month before it died completly.

oh... joy... i hope it doesnt die completely...