I am experiencing the problem with ImgBurn (v2.5.2.0) hanging during the initial "Analysing Tracks" stage of a Read to create an image of an audio CD. There is no copy protection on the audio CDs I was trying to image. However I know from running EAC that there are unreadable sectors on them. So I'm not completely surprised that ImgBurn would have a problem trying to create an image.
What does surprise/bother me is that ImgBurn just hangs and does not report any kind of read error. Also, FWIW I have been able to successfully extract an image using another, ah, less special utilility (UltraISO ).
I've attached a zipped copy of an ImgBurn log file from when this happens. I tried to create the image file twice and ImgBurn hung each time. As suggested in another post I read I pressed F8 when the hang occurred. It appears that ImgBurn is just looping trying to read the same sector.
The hang occurred with both a Sony Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S 1.03 and a LiteOn iHAS124 Y BL0V. So the problem does not appear to drive specific.
Out of 36 audio CD's I tried to extract images from tonight I ran into this problem with 13 of them. FWIW, in one case I was eventually able to get ImgBurn to successfully extract the image after it initially hung while Analysing Tracks just by retrying the extraction a few times.
In the case of the audio CD I attached the log for, EAC ran into uncorrectable errors while attempting to read track 4. Strangely enough, the ImgBurn "Read" hung both times I tried it while attempting to "analyze" track 11, not 4. Curious.
Hope someone can help me with this. If you need more info, just ask and I'll try to provide it.
Update:
It appears I can reproduce the "hang" on those discs where it occurs simply by pressing the "View Media Information ..." button while in Read mode. Of course, there is no "Cancel" function available when I go that route so the only way to "unhang" ImgBurn is to kill it using the Windows Task Manager. <sigh>
I also forgot to mention that I'm using Windows 7 64-bit. I suppose I could try doing the extraction in Win 7 32-bit if asked. (Though I'd be surprised if that was why I was having this problem ...)
-irrational john
AnalysingTracksHang.log.zip