jim348 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 After some 15 years of being a dedicated burner, I am at a crossroads and am having to ask for help after having installed 2 brand new Asus DRW-24F1st b ATA DVD burners.First things first, I have run Microsoft's Fixit.dvd.RNP.Run.exe thinking that there may have been a compatibility problem. There was some filtering changes but Microsoft came through with the statement that my 2 drives were ready to use.As of today, every burned disc is now a coaster. I have tried other software, namely Ashampoo Burning Studio 12 which I purchased 3-4 years ago. It's now gone to the internet bitbucket. I Uninstalled ImageBurn, then reinstalled it twice in the last 14 days. No changes were made to the settings, other than setting the speed to Max (16).So here I'm stuck with one of the highest rated burners, namely, ImgBurn v2.5.8.0 as my sole burning device. I installed it some 4 months ago and had nothing to say but slow down as the slowest my older burners would burn at was 8x. Much too fast for my taste buds. But every DVD came out perfect. I use 2 Md5 programs for checking every burn: namely MD5 Checker for the source files and MD5 Summer for the summary of everything in the directory/folder(s) being burned.I purchased the ASUS burners as I presumed the compatibility would be perfect as I've been running for the last 5 years an ASUS P7P55D-E motherboard, with 8G ram. The OS is Windows 7 Ultimate.Here's the bizaree part of each bad burn. It's always the last source folder listed alphabetically that shows bad sectors. That is to say, if I have 10 folder in a directory, it's #10 subfolder that both my MD5 progies eventually says its unreadable. Always!Secondly, the log files say that there are corrupted sectors on the Sony DVD.That's absurd. I can understand as I've had files fail because they did not pass the MD5 authenticity test. But the sectors were not bad.Originally, a week ago when I put in the burners, I began, as usual, to burn straight data folders with Ice's ECC recovery volumes filling up the rest of the DVD. This ECC recovery program is nothing short of amazing. My redundancy rate generally runs between 120-150% of the source data. So I'm burning some 2000-2100 mg of data with the remaining space of 2500+ balance of a 4.7 disc being devoted to Ice ECC recovery volumes. Therefore, I can recover the entire DVD not just an individual file. This is something QuickPar could never do. And by the way, for some 10-12 years, I've used nothing but Sony DVD-R. I have quite a few spindles full of Sony discs that are 14-15 years old and are still Perfect! DVD+R's don't work as they are not compatible with ICE's ECC system.I switched to converting the source files to an ISO a couple of days ago, thinking that whatever the problem is, this may make it easier being burned.No change. Every DVD has bad sectors shown in the last sub folder/folder.Being the last folder made me think that I have a buffer problem inside of Win7.So I started reburning with Cacheman 7.9 controlling the memory's cache files. Again No Change. I also installed WinISO to see if the ISO it created were close in side.They weren't. Still No Change in the validation process of the last source folder. So WinIso is now history also.So the problem(s) are now done to 3 categories: (1) Windows 7 Ultimate; (2) ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 and\or (3) the ASUS burners.As far as Windows 7, I'll put my money elsewhere. I run sfc /scannow every day after booting the bad boy up to the desktop. Always without any violations of any kind. If there were any, I would use Rollback Rx to revert back to yesterday in 10 minutes. I've always reviewing my Event Viewer for anything related to anything material such as hardware. There were problems in the past with the old burners, but now that they're gone, so has the notifications. I run an excellent spyware everyday also as I have a lifetime subscription to Super Anti-Spyware.Is my problem with (#2) ImgBurn? I'm at a loss. Is 6x too slow keeping in mind that my DVD's are maxed-out in size. But I've been burning at maximum (16 speed, not AWS), with a better percentage of successful burns, maybe a 20-25% rate of success. But that's a lot of coasters. I do not understand all of the settings within ImgBurn, so I leave them alone. Whenever I do have any error because of sectors, I have cleaned out the Graph Data Files in the user directory, with some success. Not always.I personally think it's still a caching problem, but have nothing to fall back on. Or is it the ASUS burners? I have used these Asus burners to burn a DVd Movie. It wasn't ImgBurn, but rather ConvertX to DVD. It made a beautiful burned copy.Somewhere there's a demon in side this bad boy!!!Here's the latest Log from yesterday:Any food for thought would be appreciated.Thanks guys; //****************************************\\; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log; Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 19:04:09; \\****************************************//;;I 17:38:00 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!I 17:38:00 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1)I 17:38:00 Total Physical Memory: 7,862,328 KiB - Available: 5,557,656 KiBW 17:38:00 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance.I 17:38:00 Initialising SPTI...I 17:38:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...I 17:38:01 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 17:38:01 -> Drive 2 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (K:) (ATA)I 17:38:01 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs!I 17:47:15 Operation Started!I 17:47:15 Building Image Tree...I 17:47:15 Checking Directory Depth...I 17:47:15 Calculating Totals...I 17:47:15 Preparing Image...I 17:47:15 Checking Path Length...I 17:47:15 Contents: 20 Files, 5 FoldersI 17:47:15 Content Type: DataI 17:47:15 Data Type: MODE1/2048I 17:47:15 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 17:47:15 Volume Label: Media-5860 (TV)I 17:47:15 Size: 4,687,419,790 bytesI 17:47:15 Sectors: 2,288,788I 17:47:15 Image Size: 4,688,052,224 bytesI 17:47:15 Image Sectors: 2,289,088I 17:47:18 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:03I 17:47:18 Operation Started!I 17:47:18 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-I 17:47:18 Source File Sectors: 2,289,088 (MODE1/2048)I 17:47:18 Source File Size: 4,688,052,224 bytesI 17:47:18 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5860 (TV)I 17:47:18 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E8DE60022EDBFI 17:47:18 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!I 17:47:18 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurnI 17:47:18 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 17:47:18 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 17:47:18 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1)I 17:47:18 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16xI 17:47:18 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496I 17:47:18 Write Mode: DVDI 17:47:18 Write Type: DAOI 17:47:18 Write Speed: MAXI 17:47:18 Link Size: AutoI 17:47:18 Lock Volume: YesI 17:47:18 Test Mode: NoI 17:47:18 OPC: NoI 17:47:18 BURN-Proof: EnabledI 17:47:19 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x)I 17:47:19 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB)I 17:47:20 Writing LeadIn...I 17:47:47 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2289087)I 17:47:47 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2289087)I 17:52:48 Synchronising Cache...I 17:53:00 Exporting Graph Data...I 17:53:00 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_5-47_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibgI 17:53:00 Export Successfully Completed!I 17:53:00 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:35I 17:53:00 Average Write Rate: 15,209 KiB/s (11.2x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,869 KiB/s (16.2x)I 18:43:46 Operation Started!I 18:43:46 Building Image Tree...I 18:43:47 Checking Directory Depth...I 18:43:47 Calculating Totals...I 18:43:47 Preparing Image...I 18:43:47 Checking Path Length...I 18:43:47 Contents: 22 Files, 5 FoldersI 18:43:47 Content Type: DataI 18:43:47 Data Type: MODE1/2048I 18:43:47 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 18:43:47 Volume Label: Media-5861 (TV)I 18:43:47 Size: 4,680,332,937 bytesI 18:43:47 Sectors: 2,285,332I 18:43:47 Image Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:43:47 Image Sectors: 2,285,648I 18:43:52 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:05I 18:43:52 Operation Started!I 18:43:52 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-I 18:43:52 Source File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048)I 18:43:52 Source File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:43:52 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV)I 18:43:52 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E95750022E041I 18:43:52 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!I 18:43:52 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurnI 18:43:52 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 18:43:52 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 18:43:52 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1)I 18:43:52 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16xI 18:43:52 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496I 18:43:52 Write Mode: DVDI 18:43:52 Write Type: DAOI 18:43:52 Write Speed: MAXI 18:43:52 Link Size: AutoI 18:43:52 Lock Volume: YesI 18:43:52 Test Mode: YesI 18:43:52 OPC: NoI 18:43:52 BURN-Proof: EnabledI 18:43:52 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x)I 18:43:52 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB)I 18:43:53 Writing LeadIn...I 18:44:15 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647)I 18:44:15 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647)I 18:49:10 Synchronising Cache...I 18:49:28 Exporting Graph Data...I 18:49:28 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-43_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibgI 18:49:28 Export Successfully Completed!I 18:49:28 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:05:31I 18:49:28 Average Write Rate: 15,548 KiB/s (11.5x) - Maximum Write Rate: 21,870 KiB/s (16.2x)I 18:50:02 Operation Started!I 18:50:02 Building Image Tree...I 18:50:02 Checking Directory Depth...I 18:50:02 Calculating Totals...I 18:50:02 Preparing Image...I 18:50:02 Checking Path Length...I 18:50:02 Contents: 22 Files, 5 FoldersI 18:50:02 Content Type: DataI 18:50:02 Data Type: MODE1/2048I 18:50:02 File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 18:50:02 Volume Label: Media-5861 (TV)I 18:50:02 Size: 4,680,332,937 bytesI 18:50:02 Sectors: 2,285,332I 18:50:02 Image Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:50:02 Image Sectors: 2,285,648I 18:50:04 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:00:01I 18:50:04 Operation Started!I 18:50:04 Source File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-I 18:50:04 Source File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048)I 18:50:04 Source File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:50:04 Source File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV)I 18:50:04 Source File Volume Set Identifier: 462E96400022E041I 18:50:04 Source File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!I 18:50:04 Source File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurnI 18:50:04 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 18:50:04 Destination Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 18:50:04 Destination Media Type: DVD-R (Disc ID: RITEKF1)I 18:50:04 Destination Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16xI 18:50:04 Destination Media Sectors: 2,298,496I 18:50:04 Write Mode: DVDI 18:50:04 Write Type: DAOI 18:50:04 Write Speed: MAXI 18:50:04 Link Size: AutoI 18:50:04 Lock Volume: YesI 18:50:04 Test Mode: NoI 18:50:04 OPC: NoI 18:50:04 BURN-Proof: EnabledI 18:50:04 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 22,160 KB/s (16x)I 18:50:04 Filling Buffer... (80 MiB)I 18:50:05 Writing LeadIn...I 18:50:33 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647)I 18:50:33 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647)I 18:56:25 Synchronising Cache...I 18:56:34 Exporting Graph Data...I 18:56:34 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-50_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibgI 18:56:34 Export Successfully Completed!I 18:56:34 Operation Successfully Completed! - Duration: 00:06:30I 18:56:34 Average Write Rate: 13,023 KiB/s (9.6x) - Maximum Write Rate: 19,086 KiB/s (14.1x)I 18:56:34 Cycling Tray before Verify...W 18:56:43 Waiting for device to become ready...I 18:56:53 Device Ready!I 18:57:00 Operation Started!I 18:57:00 Source Device: [3:0:0] ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 18:57:00 Source Media Type: DVD-R (Book Type: DVD-R) (Disc ID: RITEKF1)I 18:57:00 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 4x, 6x, 8x, 12x, 16xI 18:57:00 Source Media Supported Write Speeds: 6x, 8x, 12x, 16xI 18:57:00 Source Media Sectors: 2,285,648 (Track Path: PTP)I 18:57:00 Source Media Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:57:00 Image File: -==/\/[bUILD IMAGE]\/\==-I 18:57:00 Image File Sectors: 2,285,648 (MODE1/2048)I 18:57:00 Image File Size: 4,681,007,104 bytesI 18:57:00 Image File Volume Identifier: Media-5861 (TV)I 18:57:00 Image File Volume Set Identifier: 462E96400022E041I 18:57:00 Image File Application Identifier: IMGBURN V2.5.8.0 - THE ULTIMATE IMAGE BURNER!I 18:57:00 Image File Implementation Identifier: ImgBurnI 18:57:00 Image File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.02)I 18:57:00 Read Speed (Data/Audio): MAX / MAXI 18:57:01 Read Speed - Effective: 16xI 18:57:01 Verifying Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2285647)I 18:57:01 Verifying Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2285647)W 19:03:13 Failed to Read Sectors 2204416 - 2204447 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable ErrorW 19:03:27 Failed to Read Sectors 2208384 - 2208415 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable ErrorW 19:03:37 Failed to Read Sector 2208385 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable ErrorW 19:03:37 Sector 2208385 maps to File: \White Fang S01 E21\White Fang S1 E21 Poachers.mp4E 19:03:42 Failed to Read Sector 2208385 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable ErrorE 19:03:42 Sector 2208385 maps to File: \White Fang S01 E21\White Fang S1 E21 Poachers.mp4E 19:03:42 Failed to Verify Sectors!I 19:03:48 Exporting Graph Data...I 19:03:48 Graph Data File: C:\Users\Jim\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\ASUS_DRW-24F1ST_b_1.00_WEDNESDAY-JANUARY-14-2015_6-50_PM_RITEKF1_MAX.ibgI 19:03:48 Export Successfully Completed!E 19:03:48 Operation Failed! - Duration: 00:06:42I 19:03:48 Average Verify Rate: 11,014 KiB/s (8.1x) - Maximum Verify Rate: 20,817 KiB/s (15.4x)I 19:03:53 Close Request AcknowledgedI 19:03:53 Closing Down...I 19:04:09 Shutting down SPTI...I 19:04:09 ImgBurn closed!;;; //****************************************\\; ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 - Log; Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 15:27:58; \\****************************************//;;I 15:26:24 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started!I 15:26:24 Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7601 : Service Pack 1)I 15:26:24 Total Physical Memory: 7,862,328 KiB - Available: 5,718,956 KiBW 15:26:24 Duplex Secure's SPTD driver can have a detrimental effect on drive performance.I 15:26:24 Initialising SPTI...E 15:26:24 Failed to check for ImgBurn update!I 15:26:24 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices...I 15:26:25 -> Drive 1 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (J:) (ATA)I 15:26:26 -> Drive 2 - Info: ASUS DRW-24F1ST b 1.00 (K:) (ATA)I 15:26:26 Found 2 DVD±RW/RAMs!I 15:27:58 Close Request AcknowledgedI 15:27:58 Closing Down...I 15:27:58 Shutting down SPTI...I 15:27:58 ImgBurn closed! 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LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 You can probably use cdspeed, opti drive control or dvdinfopro to test the quality of the burns your drive is making on those discs. Do so, scanning at 4x, and then paste a picture of the result. Ritekf1 aren't good discs. Ignore that they've got sony stamped on them, that doesn't mean anything and sony could choose any mid/dye they want - probably the one that makes them the most profit at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TellersDave Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I was having a similar problem with SATA drives making all coasters. After much research and poking around I was able to resolve my problem. It turns out that I had fallen victim to the infamous "C?\" invalid registry entry problem. The majority of my invalid registry entries were created by Adobe products, Quicken, and last but not least - Roxio! I have completely removed Roxio from my machine and cleaned out all of the invalid registry entries. Now all of my DVD burners work perfectly including burns to Verbatim 8x MKM-003 discs from UAE. Interestingly, I could burn DVDs on my "old fashioned" IDE DVD drive but not my SATA drives (SATA hard drives worked fine). Also, none of these registry entries showed up in registry clean-up programs or as error in Event Viewer! You can check for this issue by using Windows Regedit to search the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section of the registry for C?\ entries using the find function. These entries can be corrected by replacing the "?" with ":". If the invalid path (Data column) is part of an entry who's name (Name column) consists of thirty-two zeros then the entire entry may be deleted instead of corrected. Invariably these entries will be immediately followed by another invalid (C?\) entry with a valid sub-key name. In my case there were several hundred of these invalid entries. I was able to export the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE section to a file and use Wordpad to do an automated find and replace. The file can then be imported back into the registry (ignore the error warning at the end of the import as you are only importing part of the registry) Of course, before doing any of this always create a restore point and make a back-up copy of your registry! For more information see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/in-windows-7-system-registry-shows-c-entries/f8c5aa68-81b9-4ef0-a954-7fa2a9c26aae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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