I believe you just aren't patient enough this is process that takes time. I normally leave it overnight and turn off all power management features. Gerhard On Oct 27, 2004, at 1:12 PM, Robert L. Vaessen wrote: > Mike - > > I tried to burn the Tutorial again. It didn't work. The attempt to > burn failed at stage 2. The burn icon began freewheeling after about > 10 minutes, I let it run for about 10 more minutes, then I tried to > cancel with no effect. There was no disk activity, the CPU usage had > dropped considerably, the burn icon was spinning at a rather constant > rate, and there was no audible disk activity. I had to force quit the > application. Cancel and Quit had no effect. >