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Not easily, no.

Read only can't be represented (all files on a disc will be read only) archive is used by backup programs for incremental backups (they backup files with the archive bit set and then clear the bit). It'll preserve the system and hidden ones where possible though.

Any verbatim MKM-003-00 discs will be better than the majority of other stuff you can buy. The made in UAE ones are probably the ones to go for now.

If all of the files are present on the usb stick, follow the guide on burning an OS installation disc.

I guess your playback device is having trouble reading them. Try cleaning it with a cleaning disc. Read the pinned topic on burning DL discs too. You should be using Verbatim MKM-003-00 media, not the rubbish CMC stuff that various companies stamp their name on.

Pregaps are digital silence, they shouldn't cause a click. It must be something else with the actual tracks... Incomplete samples perhaps. You'd have to read around and find what can cause a player to 'click'.

It has nothing to do with ImgBurn, it's just what's decent media and what drives like burning to. Please read the pinned topic at the top of this forum.

As per the pinned thread on burning DL discs, we only recommend verbatim discs with the MKM-001-00 and MKM-003-00 dye/MID. Anything else is very hit and miss.

Yes, it works fine. Post the log any maybe we'll be able to tell you where you're going wrong. It's probably your choice of media or your drive.

You've never opened the ISO, it's the .DVD file that you open in notepad. Of course you aren't meant to be doing that at all. When left on 'calculate optimal', the program reads the value from the dvd file itself and uses it. You aren't meant to mess with anything manually.

Can you upload the cue file please?

Yes, that's it, thanks. I'm not really sure what's gone on there. I'll have to check a few things when I have access to my development pc (next week).

You need to use a double layer disc for that image, not a single layer one as you're trying to use now.

Go into read mode and copy + paste all of thee info from the box on the right when that disc is in the drive please.

Test mode doesn't often work for anything other than CDs and dvd-R media. Drives usually ignore the flag to use test mode and end up actually writing to the disc. I can't look at the graph at the moment but will as soon as I can (next week).

If the program is saying it can't find any devices then the issue is probably with the OS itself. Look in device manager and see if your optical drive has a yellow exclamation mark next to it - or if it isn't listed at all. Google for Microsoft's' cd/dvd fix it' utility and run it. That resolves lots of issues like this.

What OS are you running? Does it complete the scan if you don't have the external drive plugged in? Microsoft have a tool for repairing common optical drive related problems. Just google 'Microsoft cd fixit' and you'll find it. Give that a try and come back to us if it doesn't fix it. You must have a driver or something installed on your system that's messing things up.

DVD will be a forgotten technology by the time this thread reaches a conclusion. Db, you're a very patient guy to continue to entertain this chap. I can only assume gamemaniaco is winding us up, because *nobody* spends this long debating media and going round in circles asking the same questions over and over again. They grew tired of his antics over at the videohelp forum quite quickly. http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/361664-Questions-Dyes-types-in-DVD-Media

When ImgBurn cycles the tray between the write and verify operations, it's so the drive has to reinitialise the disc (work out what it is and find out everything about it that it needs to know). The problem you're facing is that the drive is unable to do that as it can't read the disc - eventually giving up and returning that 'reference position not found' error. At that point, no software can do anything with the disc. That's why I don't understand how you've been able to verify it. There must come a point in time where the drive no longer returns that 'reference...' error and the software is allowed access to the disc. You could try enabling the 'perform opc before write' to see if the drive then does a better job of burning.

So it's either the discs you're using or the system as a whole. Try booting into safe mode and see if you have the same issue.

This is purely a hardware combo issue - drive / firmware / discs. Your drive is producing a disc it then can't even initialise, so there's no chance in the software being able to verify it. What I find interesting here is that you say you can verify it 'on its own' ? When and how are you able to do that? If you're reinserting it after a period of time, maybe it's a heat issue. Ensure the drive's firmware is up to date and try cleaning it with a cleaning disc.

Your drive just reported an error when it tried to write to the disc. I'd have said to do a full erase on it and try again. Rewritable discs do tend to fail to burn more frequently than write once media.

Hmm weird. Next time you burn one, please do capture graph data so I can take a look. It might be worth turning off 'Perform OPC Before Write' as that's off by default... and 'BD-R Verify Not Required' is usually on by default (you've turned it off). If you have discs with a different MID, give those a try.

Burn and verify a disc. When the verify process starts, one of the lines in the log will tell you what the booktype is. If you've already got a burnt disc, either go back and look at the log (via the help menu) or load the disc in Read mode and look at the 'Physical Format Information - Last Recorded'.

By definition, using OpenCandy makes a product 'adware' or 'ad supported'. The sole purpose of OpenCandy is to insert 3rd party product offerings into the usual installation wizard of anything that uses it. Outside of said installation wizard however, it does nothing at all. Advertising is nothing new. TVs use it, radios use it, magazines and newspapers use it, websites use it... it's everywhere. OpenCandy is just one of the biggest (probably THE biggest) one that handles this particular form/method of advertising.