Windows 7 Cannot Burn 46GB of Data to a BD-R Dual Layer Disc or 23GB to a BD-R Single Layer Disc

[zeon22]

Windows 7 Cannot Burn 46GB of Data to a BD-R Dual Layer Disc or 23GB to a BD-R Single Layer Disc

Windows 7 users that attempt to burn large amounts of data onto Blu-Ray discs can come across some issues, Microsoft confirmed officially.

It appears that the issue is related to the erroneous way in which Windows Vista’s successor estimates the write capacity of a Blu-Ray disc.

As a direct result, burn operations to BD discs will result in failures in specific scenarios, with Windows 7 displaying the following error message:

"The disc wasn't burned successfully. Make sure that you have the latest firmware for your CD or DVD burner installed, and then try again."

According to the software giant, this happens when users try to make the best out of all the storage space that a Blu-Ray disc theoretically offers them.

“When attempting to burn 46GB of data to a BD-R Dual Layer disc, or 23GB to a BD-R Single Layer disc in master mode, the process fails,” the Redmond company explained.

Microsoft has already identified the issues and notes that Windows 7 is at fault. “This problem occurs because Windows 7 does not calculate the write capacity of BD-R correctly,” the software giant said.

But despite the glitch residing in Windows 7, the Redmond company is not offering an update or even a hotfix designed to resolve the issue.

In fact, according to information from Microsoft Support there’s really no way to fix the problem, at least not for the time being. But there is somewhat of a workaround:

“To work around this issue, do not attempt to write more than 22GB of data onto a BD-R Single Layer disc or 45GB for a BD-R Dual Layer disc,” the company said.

It appears that upgrading Windows 7 by installing Service Pack 1 (SP1) won’t resolve this problem. Perhaps Microsoft will deal with the Windows 7 Blu-Ray burn bug in Windows 7 SP2, but there’s really no way of telling at this point in time.

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[RealNeo]

“To work around this issue, do not attempt to write more than 22GB of data onto a BD-R Single Layer disc or 45GB for a BD-R Dual Layer disc,” the company said.

Or use Nero :P I don't think Nero has this kind of problems :D

[ThumperZ1]

I use Nero all the time, and I can't burn more than 22 or 23 to a disk.

[T0nyB]

All the more reason to use a Linux OS as a backup, :P (I've used Ubuntu 11.04 for 5 days now and don't have any complaint, :P)

[Maxhedroom]

As affordable as current HDDs are, for data bu, I just can't justify the cost of DL Bluray blanks much less what it costs if you have bad burns as well. Using BluRay for movies...I can go with that all day but not for achieving data imo.

[marke68]

As affordable as current HDDs are, for data bu, I just can't justify the cost of DL Bluray blanks much less what it costs if you have bad burns as well. Using BluRay for movies...I can go with that all day but not for achieving data imo.

Completely agree mate,when you can get a 1tb hdd for around £40 UK it makes it pretty pointless paying over the odds for blank bluray media when there's a reasonable chance you could end up with some pretty expensive coasters.

[myidisbb]

this is why they should had released the 500GB disk that they came up with 2-3 years ago. because of the death of hd dvd the recordable disk market has been pretty dead in new shit.

screw sony's blue ray of death.

[shelfer]

windows 7 is a great success of microsoft. i like this OS