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The padding is nothing to do with the program, your drive is doing it.

Please post a link to the firmware update if possible so I can take a look myself.

What is it meant to be of? Maybe it's not any sort of valid disc image.

Does it actually play? Your drive is correcting stuff as it burns. If you need to burn uncorrected, you'd need to use a different program that supports raw mode burning. I.e. CloneCD.

Are you attempting that with ImgBurn? Don't. Use a proper hdd imaging tool like Acronis TrueImage or macrium reflect.

The lack of easy multisession support means making such discs isn't exact easy. I have explained how it could be done (in theory at least) a couple of times here in the forum. Have a search and see if you can find anything. I'm mobile at the moment so it's not as easy for me to do it for you.

It could vary by drive/firmware implementation, but I'd expect it to burn up to at least the 1GB mark if it's bothering to pad at all. The only time it'll be quicker is if you burn beyond that point. Burning the padding will take as long as burning real data and vice versa.

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.