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Need Help with "Burning or Recording CD's"

I bought an internal CD Burner (Samsung $29.95) for my PC to burn some CD's. Every CD that I have burned has errors or drop outs in the sound. I keep getting the message "Possible read error" before the burn takes place. I am burning at the slowest speed possible and I have defragged my hard drive (whatever that means). I am pretty stupid when it comes to PC's. I don't want to sink a lot of money into this, but would I be better off with a CD Recorder instead of a burner on my PC? I am just looking for a simple reliable way of duplicating some CD's for my personal use. I am from the old school of cassette recorders and they sure seemed easier than all this digital stuff. Thanks in advance for any help.
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sammie
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I've used several computer internal CDR/RW drives: 4 sony's in a desktop and now a DVD/CD/RW drive in my new laptop. I've never had a problem with recording music CD's. Disks have all turned out fine and I record all the time, so my bet is that something must be wrong with the Samsung.

You know, now that I think about it, I did encounter errors on 1 ocassion, but it was because I started using MS explorer while the CD was writing to the hard drive. I've since learned don't touch the damn machine when it's recording!
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