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Your drive is taking around 30 seconds to fill ImgBurn's 40 MiB buffer.... that's really slow and something isn't right. If you haven't got other apps using your drive at the same time as you're trying to burn, windows might be lying about the DMA thing or the drive is on its way out. Run chkdsk on it and scan for surface errors. Then do a full defrag and try again. You could also try booting into safe mode and see if you have the same problem.

That depends on the OS you're running - which you haven't told us, and I can't find that info for myself as you haven't posted a log. I'm sure if you search google, it'll tell you how to check these things. There's a post in the FAQ that may help too.

Take them back and try to buy the proper MKM-003-00 mid ones then. You have the wrong discs... that isn't going to change by you just saying you've already got Verbatim ones, you need to go and buy the right Verbatim ones.

It means your storage device (be it hdd or sdd) is busy doing other things. Try to terminate other programs that might be doing things with it - defragging, downloading etc. It could also be that your drive has dropped into PIO mode of transfer rather than DMA. When the drive becomes less 'busy', ImgBurn will resume burning your disc.

You don't have verbatim MKM mid discs, yours are the cheaper CMC ones that don't work.

I did say to use the current release. Once you're on that, open up the 'create cue' feature, add one of the problem files and then right click it in the list and show the directshow filter list. Let me know what it says.

Your drive looks to be an old/generic one. Try with good quality discs (verbatim or Taiyo Yuden) and/or invest in a new drive.

Your drive doesn't appear to like those discs very much. Try reducing the write speed to 8x or 4x. Cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc may help too.

If your CMC mid discs are branded as verbatim, you must have got the value range. Just read that 'pinned' topic at the top of this forum section about double layer discs.

I assume using it internally is out of the question? I.e. You're using it with a laptop? What about sata / esata? Your USB controller/adapter is timing out prematurely and the drive is being disconnected.

Stop using the cheapo CMC disc and buy the 8x Verbatim MKM mid ones that everyone / everywhere tells you to use. It's covered in the link in the pink box at the top of the page.

How is your drive connected to the PC? Check the cable etc. There's a 'fix it' tool from Microsoft for optical drives, that may fix the issue with it not being made available to the program (it's a system / OS issue and nothing to do with ImgBurn itself).

The slowest speed the plus format ever really allowed for is 2.4x. They're both DVDs so the speed on both is the same for a given speed. If you want to take things like leadin and closing the track/session/disc into account, you'd heb to try it for yourself on your drive and see.

Use the current version and post a log please. If your system decodes something to 100% digital silence, the program will warn you. Issues like that are down to your directshow filters.

Post the log please... As per the pink box up the top.

The problem is with reading from your source drive. You should run chkdsk on that drive and scan for surface errors.

You're downloading from some weird site that's trying to install some downloader program that is nothing to do with me or ImgBurn.

No, burnermax allows you to burn the full amount of those larger images. Truncate ignores the chunk of data making them larger and burns what can normally fit on a disc.

That's more down to their driver than ImgBurn. It must be reporting itself as a CDROM drive but then isn't processing the commands properly. If you want one that works properly, try Virtual CloneDrive. http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html

Is it a disc image file? If not, burn it in 'Build' mode, that accepts any type of file. So basically, you were probably just 'doing it wrong'.

Yes, you need to buy the decent Verbatim MKM-003-00 8x discs.

Your drive is probably 10 years old... you'll need 'old' discs that its firmware supports. Better still, buy a new drive.

Not 'silently', it's mentioned in the Log window. I will consider adding an optional prompt.

You did a quick erase there, you need to do a full one. Have you tried another disc? It's nothing you're doing wrong, your drive just isn't working properly with that media.

Your drive is reporting a 'write error' as it attempts to burn the media. The first thing I suggest doing is using the correct Verbatim discs. It doesn't matter if you think those TDK (CMC MID) discs are/were ok, obviously they aren't now I haven't tried that drive with oversized images, but I've yet to see any that work properly if they don't support the hypertuning stuff that the liteon drives do. Burnermax enabling ok and a seemingly successful write operation doesn't mean the disc is 100% readable and will actually work.