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Give the drive clean and try burning at 8x. You shouldn't need to go to 4x or 2x. A new spindle of similarly decent quality discs wouldn't go a miss either.

I've never heard of WMP playing images of any sort. I know VLC can 'play' images containing a DVD Video structure, but as audio discs have no file system, I don't know how / if they'd work. Disc images aren't meant for anything other than burning back to another disc, mounting in a virtual drive or as a means of backing up a disc for safe keeping on a hdd somewhere. Install DAEMON Tools, mount the CUE and then try playing from the virtual drive. I very much doubt there's anything wrong with your image.

If they're audio tracks, I don't even think it's possible for it to be 'unreadable'. As media player can't play images, how exactly are you attempting to play it? You'd need to mount the CUE file in a virtual drive program and then play the virtual disc in the virtual drive.

Fragmentation on the source drive maybe? They're quicker reading at the start of the drive, so things slow down as the drive fills up. It's the random access that kills the transfer rate. Have you tried the buffered I/O options to see if they make any difference?

More versions will come out, it definitely hasn't been abandoned.

That drive must be about 10 years old now... have you tried cleaning it with a cleaning disc? Have you also tried using the other drive?

This makes no sense. What 'support' would you have me add? It's a standalone program in its own right, just run it.

Use different (better) discs and / or slow the write speed down.

It only says a disc is copy protected when CSS or ACSS is detected. That's done by querying the drive. You can't query the drive to find out if a disc uses safedisc or securom etc. You'll have to ask for help over at the DT forum now I'm afraid, I can't help you beyond what I've already said.

Post the log please

The installer makes use of the OpenCandy plugin, yes. It isn't a virus. If it offers something you aren't interested in, just decline the offer. You can read about OpenCandy on their website - http://www.opencandy.com/

I expect disc 1 is used for installation and disc 2 is required when you actually run the game? Copy protection has been around for ages. It'll either be safedisc or securom.

Move the MDS for that disc elsewhere and then burn the ISO.

Your disc is copy protected.

That message isn't one I've seen before from the real setup program. Visit ImgBurn.com and get it from mirror 7 on the download page.

Your images have come from discs that use a layer break you cannot replicate on writable media. You'll just have to try burning it and hope it works.

You need to find someone that's done it. I'd be amazed if it wasn't already covered on google somewhere. There's a guide on here for burning an OS installation disc, maybe something in that will apply. You need to find which file you're meant to be booting, the rest is easy.

Not necessarily, your drive could just be messing up the burn and its firmware isn't handling it very well, reporting that error when it should be reporting something else.

I'm sorry, I have no idea about what you're trying to do or where you've got the files from that you're trying to burn. If windows 8 lets you make a recovery disc, I'd have assumed it would actually burn it itself... or at least give you an ISO to burn.

People sleep, don't expect an immediate response! I thought you'd given up with that drive and were buying a new one for your tower? Now you've reset to factory defaults, does safe mode still not make any difference? Don't forget to put service pack 2 for Vista back on.

That isn't an error you normally get first. It typically follows a 'write error' of some sort and I wonder if that initial error isn't being lost somewhere in your system. The error comes directly from the drive and basically means you're trying to write to somewhere you can't. On most discs, sectors need to be written to in sequential order. You can't write sectors 0-15 and then 32-47 or whatever. If you try, you'll get an 'invalid address for write' error back when submitting the command to write 32-47. Something is messing up somewhere but you can't do much to troubleshoot when all you've got is an intermittent issue.

Which controller is that drive attached to? Right click the drive selection drop down box when you're in Write mode and select 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window. Try booting up in safe mode and see if you have the same problem.

It reads every sector on the disc and writes it to the image file. For unprotected data discs, that's all you need.

They're still too big to fit on the disc. You'll have to make your source files smaller.

Are you following a guide for this? If so, which one? If the files are system/hidden and you're in Build mode, you'll have to enable those options on the options tab.