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No, sorry. When that command is sent at the end of a burn, your drive must be padding out the disc a bit (to make it more readable / compatible) and that's what's taking the time.

There's a guide for burning audio CDs. It doesn't sound like you're doing it correctly at the moment.

Did you have to burn more as a multisession disc to then close it?

Turn your machine totally off and on again. LiteOn drives mess up from time to time and cycling the power to them fixes it.

Assuming a full erase doesn't fix it, you'll have to try some different discs. Cleaning the drive may also help as it's getting on a bit now.

I just sends that command to the drive. Either it successfully processes it (and you think nothing happens) or it fails and you see the I/O error box.

If close track, close session and then close disc don't work, you're probably out of luck.

I tried telling you the problem before but you wouldn't accept my answer. Use different discs with that drive or use your other machine/drive that can burn them ok.

That's nothing to do with ImgBurn itself, the filter 'ad2mpgdmx.ax' is what's crashing.

That's just the EULA for OpenCandy, the opt out screens for the offers would come later in the wizard. OpenCandy is just an advertising platform. Maybe this will help you... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/21970-how-to-install-or-update-imgburn-with-pictures/

There isn't, no. That process should only take a fraction of a second or so. It would be useful if you could capture the I/O debug info of the bit that's taking a while so I can check the drive's responses. You can capture I/O debug info in the log by pressing the F8 key before making the drive do what it's taking a while to do.

OpenCandy inserts 3rd party offer screens within the usual installation wizard. On those pages, you're given the opportunity to opt out of installing whatever it's offering you.

Just because they don't totally fail to burn in one drive doesn't mean they're any good or that they'll work in another one. Each drive treats different discs differently. You also have to take the condition of the drive itself into account. An old/dirty one may have more trouble burning than a new/clean one. As the log only shows you attempting to burn them at max speed, try slowing it down to 8x. The drive may do a better job.

Try cleaning the drive. You're losing the actual error returned by the drive though - probably due to the controller the drive is attached to and the drivers installed for it. "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error." is a Windows error you see, not a drive one.

Try the other speeds your drive claims to support on those discs. It did a bad job at 10x and the disc is unreadable. It's nothing to do with ImgBurn itself. Consider buying some better discs too - Taiyo Yuden are all I use CD wise.

This isn't the tool for that task I'm afraid. It only works with optical drives.

That one will be down to the media you're using. Buy some better discs - Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden.

The first step is finding it... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=14632 Then just copy + paste it or attach it. You could also burn & verify the disc again and copy + paste everything from the Log window within the program.

Post the log please.

It could be the drive itself or just its connection to the PC - as in the port or cable. Try running scan disk on it and tell it to check for surface errors. There's probably a WD tool for testing drives (prior to RMA) too that you could try.

You can always opt out. Just try clicking it. I actually thought the disabled looking 'custom' options had been removed but I guess they are still working on it.

There's something wrong with your F: drive. Is it an internal hdd?

Yes but the bar in the CUE window isn't a bar showing progress of creating the CUE, it's a bar showing how much space has been used up on a standard 80 minute CD by the songs you've added so far.

The drive performs the actual format, not ImgBurn. ImgBurn just asks the drive for progress updates. If it's taking forever and seemingly getting stuck, try with some other / better discs.

Your original install disc must already be bootable? You can just copy that using the 'how to copy a disc' guide. If the source disc is a double layer one, you'll need a blank double layer one to write the image to.