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That drive is ancient now and seeing as it only lists 2x as a supported write speed for your tyg02 discs, I'd say the firmware probably doesn't really support them at all. You're using an out of date version of ImgBurn too.

Yes, just for now, make ISO files of what you want to burn and then burn those. That way, you can use Verify mode to compare the disc to the image at a later date and not simply be checking the disc is readable. No, that isn't significant (it's purely cosmetic)... but mine had always showed up as USB 3.0 when it was connected that way in testing. I wonder why yours just says 2.0 ?

Have you tried with other media? A rewritable maybe? Problems like this are the hardest to do anything with. Keep using images and reverify anything that fails the initial one to see if the errors are in the same place. Make sure you reenable the option to compare against an image file or it won't be comparing the actual data on the disc.

It's a raw dump of the cdtext data.

You aren't using decent discs but the drive still shouldn't just be getting stuck and not erroring out. I don't understand why your drive doesn't show up in safe mode. Your machine's sata controller is only in basic ata mode rather than ahci. Do you have any other discs you can try? Do you have anything in your filters drivers list? It's in the Tools menu and you can copy + paste the info.

Update the firmware on your drive and try again. http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GH24NS70/files.html

That thread was mainly aimed at buggy drives / firmware at that time. If you get it now and have a more recent drive / firmware then it's probably due to an actual problem with the hardware / media you're using. There are only really 2 makes of BD drive now... LG and Pioneer. I'd go for the Pioneer.

There isn't much between them. Last time I paid any attention to an original disc, it used 2.50.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

It may not be issuing that command. I'm not entirely sure it's needed, but it should just fail (and I've never seen it do that), not hang.

Which version did you go with? Does your disc have the proper folder structure for an avchd disc? You mention the m2ts file, hopefully that isn't all you've got on the disc?

If cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc doesn't help, your only real option is a new drive and/or better discs. There's no magic fix for when drive / firmware / media combos don't work.

Yes, I'd say the Samsung has had it. Does your ihas120 drive not work either?

There's an A11 bios update available for your laptop. http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=Y1VWX&fileId=3210558357&osCode=W764&productCode=alienware-m18x-r2&languageCode=EN&categoryId=BI For the intel rapid storage tech driver, there are loads to try... https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/55005/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST- Yours is 11.7, then there's a 12.0, 12.5,12.8,12.9, 13.1, 13.2 and finally 13.6. Hopefully one of those will do the trick. Normally I'd expect the optical drive to be on port 4 or 5 (where ports start on port 0). That way, the RAID portion has ports 0 - 3 (4 in total) and the remaining 2 ports (assuming the usual 6 in total) can be left in AHCI mode - as the last 2 don't normally support RAID at all.

Thar's a shame, the info doesn't include the version number on your system. Do you know which version of the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drive you've got installed? Are you actually using RAID on your machine or could you go into the BIOS and put it in AHCI mode? It might be worth booting into Safe Mode and seeing if everything works ok in that.

This is probably due to your drivers. Optical drives don't like being on controllers in RAID mode. Right click the destination drop down box when you're in Write mode and pick 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

Yes, still the CUE file. It can read CCD files though.

Yours is calling the data file an img file because you're creating a ccd file. Virtual clone drive / clonecd only work with ccd/img combos. There's no way (that I know of) to specify the name of the data file, they always look for *.img.

Try installing the latest firmware for the drive and give it another go. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SH-S223Q/files.html If it still can't produce a working disc at 4x, either your drive has had it or your disc aren't the quality 'MKM-003-00' should be (and the drive can't handle it).

All it's doing is issuing the 'reserve track' command and waiting for a response. So it sounds like your system is hanging / failing to process it. Try booting into safe mode and see if you have the same problem. It could be driver related.

Simple safe mode... but it doesn't really matter. I don't know why your drive didn't even show up... weird! In normal windows mode (not safe mode), go into Write mode, right click the Destination drive drop down box and pick 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

That's still not the full log but perhaps you actually deleted lines from the Log window it before closing the program, or again omitted them when posting it. Do you have any other discs you can try? Something other than 'CMC' ones. Next time you buy some, get Taiyo Yuden. Do you have the same problem if you pick one of the other supported speeds? You're currently burning at 'MAX', which is 24x for your drive/firmware/media combo.

Yes, that would be what 'Build' mode is for. On the main screen ('Ez-Mode Picker' scree), the shortcut to 'Build' mode is the 'Write files / folders to disc' or the 'Create image from files / folders', depending on if you want to burn the files directly to disc or create a disc image file (ISO file) of them.

The program saves the log automatically when you close it. Look in the help menu for the log option. If you're worried the OS is messing things up, boot into safe mode and try again. Chances are it's just the discs you're using.

Any SATA drive will work with the 760 desktop case, it's a standard drive. The only thing you might need are special screws or something due to the quick release mechanisms the Dell cases use. Personally, I'd probably back up to an external hdd using something like Acronis True Image.