fasterthanlight

Hey, I know there's an entire forum entitled burners, but its not really what I'm looking for. I'm looking for personal recommendation about external dvd drives. I have a laptop and my built in one has been giving me lots of problems lately. I want to burn dual layer dvds. Anyone have any suggestions? Also, I apologize if there is somewhere else I should put this. I can't seem to find that place, so I decided to put it here.

Well, I tried again at 4x and it worked. Huh. I also put a small piece of tape on my drive to hold it more straight in line with my computer. Shoddy hardware I guess.

I'm trying again with 4x. My friend moved my laptop last night while a DL dvd was burning and it hasn't worked with dual layer ever since

I can't seem to find anyone who has had this same error, so I decided to make a thread. I'm trying to burn a duel layer dvd and this is the error i get, at around 19% complete. I get an I/O Error with the following log. I 17:29:06 ImgBurn Version 2.5.5.0 started! I 17:29:06 Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Edition (6.1, Build 7600) I 17:29:06 Total Physical Memory: 6,223,728 KB - Available: 4,177,800 KB W 17:29:06 Drive E:\ (FAT32) does not support single files > 4 GB in size. I 17:29:06 Initialising SPTI... I 17:29:06 Searching for SCSI / ATAPI devices... I 17:29:06 -> Drive 1 - Info: hp BD-ROM BDCTD03HA 1.00 (F:) (ATAPI) I 17:29:06 -> Drive 2 - Info: ELBY CLONEDRIVE 1.4 (G:) (SCSI) I 17:29:06 Found 1 BD-ROM/HD DVD-ROM and 1 BD-ROM/DVD±RW! I 17:31:01 Operation Started! I 17:31:01 Source File: ...\cpx-ds2a.dvd I 17:31:02 Source File Sectors: 3,827,488 (MODE1/2048) I 17:31:02 Source File Size: 7,838,695,424 bytes I 17:31:02 Source File Volume Identifier: DVD_ROM I 17:31:02 Source File Volume Set Identifier: ec67c000MS UDFBridge I 17:31:02 Source File Application Identifier: CDIMAGE 2.45 (12/06/2000 TM) I 17:31:02 Source File Implementation Identifier: Microsoft CDIMAGE UDF I 17:31:02 Source File File System(s): ISO9660, UDF (1.50) I 17:31:02 Destination Device: [0:1:0] hp BD-ROM BDCTD03HA 1.00 (F:) (ATAPI) I 17:31:02 Destination Media Type: DVD+R DL (Disc ID: CMC MAG-D03-64) (Speeds: 2.4x, 4x) I 17:31:02 Destination Media Sectors: 4,173,824 I 17:31:02 Write Mode: DVD I 17:31:02 Write Type: DAO I 17:31:02 Write Speed: 2.4x I 17:31:02 Link Size: Auto I 17:31:02 Lock Volume: Yes I 17:31:02 Test Mode: No I 17:31:02 OPC: No I 17:31:02 BURN-Proof: Enabled I 17:31:02 Write Speed Successfully Set! - Effective: 3,324 KB/s (2.4x) I 17:31:02 User Specified L0 Data Zone Capacity: 1,913,760 I 17:31:25 Set L0 Data Zone Capacity Succeeded! I 17:31:26 Filling Buffer... (40 MB) I 17:31:27 Writing LeadIn... I 17:31:28 Writing Session 1 of 1... (1 Track, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 17:31:28 Writing Track 1 of 1... (MODE1/2048, LBA: 0 - 3827487) I 17:31:28 Writing Layer 0... (LBA: 0 - 1913759) W 17:39:23 Failed to Write Sectors 742144 - 742175 - Reason: Write Error W 17:39:23 Retrying (1 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (2 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (3 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (4 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (5 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (6 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (7 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (8 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (9 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (10 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (11 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (12 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (13 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (14 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (15 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (16 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (17 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (18 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (19 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write W 17:39:27 Retrying (20 of 20)... W 17:39:27 Retry Failed - Reason: Invalid Address For Write Any ideas? I've burned this same dvd with the same hardware and disk so I think its something to do with the software.