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I wasn't acting; I thought it wasn't saving correctly. But, it's over now. I won't add it again. Sorry for the trouble.

Okay, but those apps report that they're writing at 1x, so I had no reason to doubt them. As for the sig, I'm sorry, I didn't realise it was a problem. A simple PM would've been sufficient to explain. There was no need to publically insult me.

I like to burn at 1x for reliability. Nero can do it, as can DeepBurner. ImgBurn is the only app that doesn't. My log is below. BTW, why does my sig keep disappearing? I've put it in twice but it's gone again? I 22:55:00 ImgBurn Version 2.4.2.0 started!I 22:55:00 Microsoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 3) I 22:55:00 Total Physical Memory: 785,200 KB - Available: 214,864 KB I 22:55:00 Initialising SPTI... I 22:55:00 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 22:55:10 Found 1 DVD

I've burnt 4 DVDs tonight and I've set them all to burn at 1x only, but they all burnt at a higher rate (the current one is burning at 4.0x!). Why is this? I've disabled automatic settings for speed and selected 1x, so it seems strange (and annoying).

Ah, it was a bunch of "Thumbs.db" files, because hidden/system files were NOT included, as you said. That's a bit silly to have as a default setting, isn't it? Why not just allow an entire specified folder to be burnt? Then it wouldn't scare newbies into thinking the app is useless and uninstall it, followed by bad-mouthing it to others. Rhetorical thoughts here. Another quick question: it's a shame there's no way to see how much space a selection of files will put onto a DVD. I have to add some, then see if it's over, then delete some, then delete more, etc. At least with Nero you can see how far over it is immediately via a progress bar.

I just burnt a DVD backup of files and folders, but the number of files and their total size on the DVD is a bit less than the hard drive source. WTF?

Nope, all I have is my portable USB-powered DVD drive, which I need to be able to boot a CD from. Maybe someone else here can help (fingers crossed).

Hi mmalves, thanks for the info. I used a Win98se boot disk image instead, which invokes the necessary MSCDEX app, and it all works fine on my desktop PC. So, thanks for that! However... I also have an Asus Eee PC, which doesn't have a native CD/DVD drive. For that, I use a portable USB drive, and MSCDEX doesn't work with that -- it says no CD drive could be detected. In fact, that's what the screenshots I posted are of. So, I'd still like to be able to access those ancillary programs from the portable USB drive somehow. Any ideas on how to overcome that problem?

Hi, I'm a newbie here, but I've done a lot of searching of these forums. No answer has worked for me yet. I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to create a bootable CD with a selection of third-party apps (such as Ghost). Using the info in these forums, I've so far been able to create a bootable CD, but not with the third-party ancillary stuff showing up -- even though they are on the CD! That's what I've done. Observe: In the image above, the boot image I've selected is one I extracted from an XP boot floppy that I just formatted. Now, you can see I've added my ancillary files into the source area, and created a bootable ISO called D:\Boot.iso, which is fine so far. If I double-click that ISO file with WinRAR, it looks like this: You can plainly see the ancillary files are there (eg. ghost.exe and so on). But if I boot with that CD, I can only access the boot image files: It's like the CD is just the image of the floppy and nothing else, but WinRAR proves that the other ancillary files ARE there. So... what step am I missing so that I can access these ancillary files at bootup? Thanks.