There are many myths regarding the reason that causes the message: “power calibration error”. Most of these misconceptions pushes the average user to rather cardinal ways to solve the problem, such as buying a new drive, reinstalling Windows, etc. Therefore, it will be very useful to identify the veracity of certain statements.
Many consider it to blame for the power calibration error, Nero. In such cases, it is proposed to remove the program and use another. It can really help, but very rarely. It should be noted that the cause of this message is not in the program. Typically, in such cases, the drive or drive will cause a warning due to contamination or incompatibility.
The development of a similar situation will be the appearance of a message in Nero: "power calibration error." The program, accordingly, remembers this and gives the user a warning message even when the problem has already been fixed. It is worth repeating that the likelihood of such a development is very low, and the installation of other applications for burning discs can only help a limited number of cases. In most situations, software from third-party developers will simply produce a burn error.
In fact, in most cases, the real cause of the “power calibration error” message is poor-quality disks or drive incompatibility. Here, the search for the original firmware of the drive or the use of discs from other manufacturers may come to the rescue. In the vast majority of cases, problems arise only with DVD-R discs on a particular computer.
The same media, as a rule, will be quietly recorded on other drives, so do not rush to throw them away. If the user received a warning “error in power calibration” during the recording process, then in no case should one get excited. The disc can be pulled out and burned without any malfunctions and errors on another drive, despite the fact that the blank spent a long time inside the computer where they tried to burn it.
Another way to deal with this problem may be to reduce the write speed of the disc. The fact is that when the drive is used, the laser power decreases, and high-quality recording can be done only at 2.4x and 4x speeds. Sometimes replacing the power supply helps. A new unit must necessarily have more power.
When a message such as “power calibration error” appears, you should refrain from such steps as reinstalling the operating system. In any case, this will only be a waste of time, since it will not have any effect on fixing the problem .
If the drive is old and all the steps described above did not help, then only, of course, you will have to buy a new one. In such cases, it will be useful to install a freshly purchased drive without discarding the old one. Using the new drive only for burning discs will significantly extend its service life, and reading the blanks can be done on the old one.