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The disc is either partially unreadable after all these years or your drive has difficulty reading the disc. Not every drive will read every disc. For instance, LG drives won't read things that Pioneer drives will and LG drives will read in somethings ASUS drives won't. The only thing to really do at this point is try a different make, manufacturer, and model of DVD drive and see if it can read the disc. While there's no guarantee the disc IS still fully readable and you just didn't happen to get a different DVD drive that DIDN'T read it, too, it's the next step I would try.

Hey yall im new here casue i can't seem to create an image from this ps2 game fifa 07 this is the log: Thank you for your help! I 15:29:06 ImgBurn Version 2.5.8.0 started! I 15:29:06 Microsoft Windows 8 Core x64 Edition (6.2, Build 9200) I 15:29:06 Total Physical Memory: 16’534’840 KiB - Available: 1’852’072 KiB I 15:30:27 Initialising SPTI... I 15:30:27 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 15:30:27 -> Drive 1 - Info: Slimtype ES1 1 ZL0M (D:) (USB 2.0) I 15:30:27 -> Drive 2 - Info: Alcohol V-SATA CD/DVD 1.0d (E:) (SATA) I 15:30:27 Found 1 DVD±RW and 1 BD-ROM XL! I 15:32:52 Operation Started! I 15:32:52 Source Device: [0:0:0] Slimtype ES1 1 ZL0M (D:) (USB) I 15:32:52 Source Media Type: DVD-ROM (Book Type: DVD-ROM) I 15:32:52 Source Media Supported Read Speeds: 2x; 4x; 6x; 8x I 15:32:52 Source Media Sectors: 2’294’304 (Track Path: PTP) I 15:32:52 Source Media Size: 4’698’734’592 bytes I 15:32:52 Source Media Volume Set Identifier: ;9576253SCEI I 15:32:52 Source Media Application Identifier: PLAYSTATION I 15:32:52 Source Media Implementation Identifier: DVD-ROM GENERATOR I 15:32:52 Source Media File System(s): ISO9660; UDF (1.02) I 15:32:52 Read Speed (Data/Audio): 4x / 4x I 15:32:52 Destination File: C:\Users\datal\Documents\Image.iso I 15:32:52 Destination Free Space: 50’840’039’424 Bytes (49’648’476.00 KiB) (48’484.84 MiB) (47.35 GiB) I 15:32:52 Destination File System: NTFS I 15:32:52 File Splitting: Auto I 15:32:53 Read Speed - Effective: 1.7x - 4x I 15:33:00 Reading Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 2294303) I 15:33:00 Reading Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 2294303) W 15:47:50 Failed to Read Sectors 1553216 - 1553247 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 15:47:57 Failed to Read Sector 1553228 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error W 15:47:57 Sector 1553228 maps to File: \DATA\AUDIO\DAT_ITA.BIG W 15:47:57 Retrying (1 of 20)... I 15:48:02 Abort Request Acknowledged W 15:48:04 Retry Failed - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error E 15:48:04 Failed to Read Sector 1553228 - Reason: L-EC Uncorrectable Error E 15:48:04 Sector 1553228 maps to File: \DATA\AUDIO\DAT_ITA.BIG E 15:48:04 Failed to Read Sectors! I 15:48:06 Exporting Graph Data... I 15:48:06 Graph Data File: C:\Users\datal\AppData\Roaming\ImgBurn\Graph Data Files\Slimtype_ES1_1_ZL0M_DIENSTAG-17-DEZEMBER-2024_15-32_N-A.ibg I 15:48:06 Export Successfully Completed! E 15:48:06 Operation Aborted! - Duration: 00:15:12 E 15:48:06 Average Read Rate: 3’406 KiB/s (2.5x) - Maximum Read Rate: 4’807 KiB/s (3.6x) ImgBurn2.log

There's no sure fire way to say with 99.99% certainty that hardware has failed. What I do is if I get a failure 3 times in a row, I consider that a pattern indicating hardware failure and test replacing the hardware first. If that doesn't fix the issue, the problem is most likely down to the media being used. Either a bad batch of discs or the manufacturer changed the manufacturing process and the discs don't work anymore. Don't know what you mean by "directory space," but I think you mean how much space is free on the target device where you're creating the image to. Space on a hard drive, etc. has no bearing on how well an optical device works. Besides, 20 GB is not small. Unfortunately, I haven't bought a DVD drive in like 15 years. I exclusively use BD burners now. What I use is the ASUS BW BD internal half height burner and put it in a VanTec USB 3.0 enclosure. You should avoid slim drives as they generally are junk as writers. I have to use an enclosure because hardly any manufactures make PC cases with half height bays in them anymore unless you're building a custom rig. Your logs are showing failures on both Ritek DVD and CD media. It would seem highly unlikely that both the CD's and the DVD's would be at fault simultaneously. So, that would indicate it's the drive that has died. The same laser writes to CD and DVD, although it is generally the case when a drive dies that when one media fails, like DVD, the opposite media generally still writes okay. However, that is, obviously, not universal behavior. If you're experiencing read or write issues to optical media, that would have little bearing on the physical health of an HDD. If you get read or write errors, read/writes from/to the HDD cease until the read/write operations complete from the optical media.

The first thing i thought was that the burner is gone. I think it's about 10 years old (maybe it's a lot) but it hasn't been used much. Is there any way to check if the problem is in the device? I don't think the problem is in the CD and DVD disks, i've been using them for years and there haven't been any problems. The directory space is also small (20gb free), could that be a problem? Please recommend me a brand of internal or external burnee? Today I tried to burn a DVD again and again the same error. The first read does it without a problem and the second one gives this error. The strange thing is that all the files are written and readable. Finally, can these entries and errors damage files on the hard drive? I'm sending the entire log file. ImgBurn.log

How long have you used this burner? You say it's the "same device" but I don't know if it's the same physical unit you've always used when it worked before in the past or if this is a replacement. If it's the same burner and you've used it for a length of time, it may have just died on you. That could explain why 1 burn worked but the next 3 didn't. It was working on the first and died right afterwards, before the 2nd and 3rd. You said you've used the same DVD's so it seems you're fine using RITEKF1 media, although be aware that it is sometimes cheap media in certain parts of the world. Could have gotten a bad batch of discs, too. I recently encountered a bad batch of BD-R's that would complete writes and verifies, but, within a few days, most of those burns were partially or totally unreadable. So, some were good, but most were bad.

Thanks for the help. The ElbyCDIO seems to work flawlessly. I've burned maybe fifteen discs thus far without a single issue.

I tried to burn three DVDs. The first time was successful, but on the second and third burn I get this error. I don't understand where the problem is, given that I haven't made any changes to either the device or the software. I'm attaching a printscreen and a file with all the information from the last burn. I haven't had this problem before, provided I've used the same device, the same DVDs, the same software. I don't know what to do. Please help, thanks in advance. 1412.txt

I doubt it's a defective unit insomuch as a replacement will fix the problem. I'd be willing to bet it's simply Sony's typical junk that doesn't work right from the design point of view.

Thanks. It’s still under warranty so I’m going to contact Sony.

If you're saying you played the FLAC files from the DVD-R on your PC fine, then the problem is your BR player. It may have an issue with Verbatim DataLife Plus DVD-R or just DVD-R in general. Or some other issue involving playing back files or FLAC files in particular from optical disc.

Sorry, I burned it to a DataLife Plus DVD-R. I played it on my PC and it worked fine. I'll check to see if there is a firmware update for my BR player.

@LIGHTNING UK! any chance raw-dao could be implemented in Imgburn? CDRDAO implements it on its generic-mmc-raw driver (https://github.com/cdrdao/cdrdao/blob/c2b0ff2740ecc94e976e67e8d6527cfb7107b21f/dao/GenericMMCraw.cc)

Could be the Sony hardware. Sony has generally made junk since 2002. I once had a Sony DVD player that refused to play DVD-R's made by... Sony. And this was back when Sony made their own DVD-R, before farming it out to Ritek. I don't think there is such a thing as "DataLife Plus" BD-R. In North America, there's only the VERBAT-IM media, which is generally high quality. (I received a batch of bad Verbatim BD-R recently.)

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll try playing it on my PC. The clipping of the songs was noticed when I played the disc on my new Sony blu ray player. I used a Verbatim DataLife Plus BD-R disc.

I don't recommend any speed rewritable DVD for long term archival storage. The only reason I use 8x DVD+RW is for temporary copies of data. Short term storage or to shuttle between devices. That's why I prefer 8x. They write faster and since I only care about temporary archival storage, I like the speed advantage. The last time I looked, I only found like 4 lots on eBay from Imation of 25 disc cake stacks. Basically, I couldn't find any "new" in an online store. Which was why I stocked up last time I found some on eBay and purchased like 200 blanks. Basically, any of the DataLife Plus DVD+/-R SL/DL from Verbatim are what I've used for like 20 years now. NOT the Life Series you find in brick and mortar stores. Those are CMC Magentics media, the worst out there, which is ironic as CMC now OWNS Verbatim! The DataLife Series are the MCC/MKM Mitsubishi high quality blanks that you generally only find in online stores like Amazon.com.

If you burned the FLAC files directly to a disc and if the FLAC files play correctly as a source file on your PC and if the FLAC files don't play correctly off of the disc you burned them on, that sounds like a lower quality disc you burned to is not playing back correctly in the device. What device was this disc played on? Was it a CD disc or DVD/BD? If this skipping is on a standalone player, have you also tried playing these FLAC files from a disc in your PC? One check to perform is to isolate one of these FLAC's where there is missing audio and copy them from the disc on your PC in Windows/File Explorer and see if the copies are still missing data. IF the copies are still missing audio, then you know the files were burned that way on the disc, most likely. Do you have a log from where you burned these FLAC files to a disc? That would say if you used a lower quality disc or not.

I burned them as a data disc.

So you like the 8x DVD+RW Ritek Media? I have been using Verbatim DVD+R (Dual Layer), pretty good luck with these. These seem to be +R version. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005F2YPH2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 You claim only Ritek is still making them, but soon to wrap up production? If so maybe I should try to get some before they become dead dinosaurs. Any advice on Dual Layer DVD9 / DVD5 Media?

You burnt them as a data disc? as in, you have flac files on the disc or you made an audio cd? if you still have actual flac files on the disc, they’d have been written as-is. No data gets lost. if you burnt an audio cd, the directshow filters installed on your pc would have handled the conversion into the format required for an audio cd. Perhaps one of those misbehaved.

I just burned a data disc of flac files and the first split seconds of the beginning of some of the songs are missing. However, others play perfectly from start to finish from the same album. I checked the source file and it plays correctly. Is there an explanation for why this may have happened? Is there a setting that I missed that will ensure that the entire song is transferred to the disc?

Drives are built around the mmc specs. That’s how you communicate with them. There might be a higher level call you can make that either uses cached data from the OS or issues the two calls in the background on your behalf, I’ve no idea about that though as I work with the actual mmc commands.

I need to query all DVD drives and get Make,Model, Firmware, Date, Serialnumber. I know the data is there, because my C++/C# code (Windows) can display the bytes with the 5 values. But I have to make two different calls using different CDB Settings. I used 0x12 Inquiry Command. For Vendor, Product, Firmware, and Date. Then I use: (For Serial Number) (2nd Call) sptwb.spt.Cdb[0] = 0x46; // GET CONFIGURATION opcode sptwb.spt.Cdb[2] = 0x01; // Feature Code MSB: 0108h sptwb.spt.Cdb[3] = 0x08; // Feature Code LSB: 0108h sptwb.spt.Cdb[8] = 128; // Allocation length I get the raw bytes, still not sure how the bytes are formatted yet, but data is there. Question: Do I have to make two calls to DeviceIoControl using SPTI? Maybe there is a better way to ask the drive for Vendor, Product, Firmware, Date , Serial Number I have an sql database, I would like to store this data in for each drive. Those 5 values are most important for now. I would later like to dig up all the configuration data once I get my head wrapped around the calls. Would appreciate any advice from those who know. Thanks, Russ

I have personally burned 12 Discs at the same time with ImgBurn, using Dual Layer Verbatim discs, no issues. I have done this at least 3 times. I'm using an old computer from 2009 running Windows 7, with 16GB of RAM. All 12 Discs were reading from a basic SATA WD 10TB Hard Disk. Additionally, I can also on the same machine, Read 12 DVDs to that same Hard Drive using ImgBurn. No Issues, done this 20 plus times.

Unfortunately, there's only one manufacturer left on 8x DVD+RW: Ritek. And they're beginning to wrap up production on those. Unfortunately, you can't always trust Verbatim either. I had a recent batch of bad Verbatim quality BD-R. They all completed writes and Verifies, but, within less than 5 days were either partially or completely unreadable. So, I TRIED reburning the data, but some of it was corrupt and unrecoverable. Luckily, I caught the bad batch within 3 months of using the last disc I'd burned and only less than 15 had been used. Could have been worse.

Yeah, thanks for the info on the Pioneers for reading. I use Verbatim discs, so I don't have many write failures with good media on any drives. Reading discs is the most important thing for me as you can always re-burn a failed burn attempt. I recently purchased 2 Lite-On drives, because I did not have many in my collection and because they were made in Taiwan. Other things built in Taiwan tend to be of High quality. Liteon DH-16AFSH PREMM2, (NV9W Firmware) (2020/01/08) - SATA Liteon ATAPI iHAS324 F (CL8N Firmware) (2016/10/13) -SATA The iHAS324 seems to be pretty bad at reading discs, I was quite disappointed. The 16AFSH is a premium version. What ever that gets you. But if failed to read one of the problem discs that the Pioneer Drive could read perfectly. But I think it's a decent reader.