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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.

It can't, no. That would be down to the authoring program, not the burning program.

You could try not burning at max speed too.

You should format without spare areas rather than enabling fast-write. It defeats the purpose of them and you're better off having full disc capacity if you want full write speed. For whatever reason, doing a full format on a disc didn't appear to actually empty/zero the sectors. That's why I added the 2nd stage of the full erase for BD-RE so the disc really is left in an 'empty' state. You can use Discovery mode to write made up data to every sector on the disc. Yes, that'll point out any problem sectors. Re-allocation will only occur if spare areas are present AND fast write is disabled. The reason the write is slower (i.e. 0.8x) is because the drive is verifying as it goes and reallocating where necessary.

Right, ok, so the polling part is still working, it's just the drive (or dodgy drivers) keeps reporting the format is still in progress. The program can only go by what's being reported to it. If you go the route of not formatting properly (i.e. Waiting for the drive to complete things properly), I'm sure it would be possible to proceed to the next stage. The way ImgBurn defaults to doing it is highlighting some issue with your setup/hardware/media.

It sounds like your drive or system is getting stuck. A 'proper' format of a BDRE DL disc is a 2 part process. ImgBurn starts by asking the drive to format the disc. The drive is then meant to go off and do that, ImgBurn just polls it every second or so to see if it has finished and get an updated % complete. Once it reports it has finished, ImgBurn will proceed to zero all the sectors on the disc. All in all, it's probably 3 - 4 hours. When yours is stuck on 99%, press the F8 key and see if it's still processing commands. You'll notice entries being written to the log window if it is. It might be worth booting up in safe mode to see if you have the same issue. Some drivers can mess around with the sense data returned by optical drives. Safe mode sometimes gets around that.

ImgBurn just reads from sector 0 to the last sector. It won't read anything before / beyond that.

It's on the device tab in the setting. Eject tray after...

It defaults to automatically saving the log each time the program is closed down. If there's no log file, you must have told it not to or something has wiped it out (deleted it).