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I don't recall the program actually caring about the drive saying CD-TEXT is supported or not. Seeing as that drive is so old, it may not be fully MMC compliant and actually report its full capabilities. What happens when it burns? Does it not attempt to write CD-TEXT? Post the log of you burning + verifying a CD (with CD-TEXT) please.

Post the log please.

Don't waste your time db.

Use the recommended MKM-003-00 media. Revert ImgBurn's settings to their default values.

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

You have a problem with the way the drive is connected to your machine. The data being sent to / read from it is getting corrupted. It could be the USB enclosure/adapter and/or cable you're using or the port (and maybe USB controller) it's connected to... so try different ones of those if possible. A plain old SATA connection would be best rather than USB.

If they don't verify, it means the drive can't read the disc. It's not a good sign if the drive that just burnt it can't read it.... Obviously it didn't burn it very well. Telling the program not to verify doesn't make it any more or less readable, it just means the program can't tell you there are problems. The Optiarc 5280-CB-Plus is a good drive for overburning Dvd+R DL discs, yes. It will overburn mkm-03-00 with minimal fuss.

ImgBurn can actually do that too via debug mode

You need certain hardware. Read an Xbox related forum

Unless your player actually supports playing mpg files, it's not going to work. ImgBurn doesn't convert anything and you may need a proper dvd video disc. Use something like dvd flick or convertxtodvd for the conversion and then burn the output with ImgBurn.

There's nothing bad in it, just a legitimate plugin (OpenCandy) that can potentially offer you 3rd party software during the installation wizard. There isn't a version of the setup program without it so you'll have to tell webroot to not complain so much.

So you're mounting the image under the floppy drive device within VMware/virtualbox? If so, you don't want to build an image, you just take a complete copy of your (extract the boot image from your) existing floppy disk and point VMware at that. If you make an ISO (or any other extension you give it) in ImgBurn, it's meant for an optical device and therefore needs to be mounted as one... not a floppy device. Beyond that, I don't 100% follow what you're trying to do. The only Windows 98 install disc I've seen was a CD and that was already bootable.

The problem here is your c: drive (hard drive). Run chkdsk on it with a full surface scan to look for bad sectors.

There's already a guide for creating a bootable Vista / Windows 7 install disc from a proper set of install files/folders (not an ISO) on your hdd in the Guides section.

If you have a disc you want to copy, you simply use read mode to make an ISO of it (as you have done) and then write it to a new disc using write mode. The bootable bit is contained within the ISO so you don't need to worry about making it bootable, it already will be.

Maybe a faster speed would produce better results? Cleaning the drive may help too. You could try enabling the 'perform OPC before write' setting to see if that makes a difference.

You just add the drive letter (I.e. F:) to the source box and set it going.

Buy a new drive

You aren't looking for a button labelled 'clean image'. You add the drive letter (i.e. D:) to the source box and build a new image that way.

Obviously they aren't the same discs as the ones using mkm-003-00 dye / mid or they'd have the mkm-003-00 dye / mid! Being printable has nothing to do with anything. You can buy printable versions of any dye / mid.

Sounds like a driver issue to me. What chipset does the motherboard use? See if you can burn in safe mode without a problem.

Different dye, different MID, different burning strategy in the drive's firmware. If they're branded as verbatim, they're probably from their basic / value range. You're getting write errors because your drive can't burn to them. They might scan ok when you do get an ok one, but you get far more bad ones that just fail than you would with a spindle of mkm-003-00 discs.

The CCD is only made if you've told the program to do that. I'm sure it's off by default. It's made so you can mount the image in Virtual CloneDrive - which doesn't support CUE files. Burn the CUE.

For the amount of data, yeah you'd be right in thinking there's less to read if you just do copy+paste and therefore it shouldn't take as long. In reality though, depending on the number of files on the disc, you have the overhead of actually 'finding' the files on the disc (parsing the file system) and the files aren't always in the perfect order for copy+paste so you get a bit of random accessing and that can slow it down a lot.

Ok, what answer would you like to hear? They are nothing like MKM discs. Have you ever even paid attention to the MID / dye before?