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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.

See if you can get hold of another drive to try on your system. Try other USB ports and cables too if you haven't already done so.

Your drive is now reporting that the disc has 452111 free sectors. That's another completely abnormal size. Get another brand new disc off the spindle, insert it in the drive and check the disc info in the box on the right again. If it still says the same for 'Free Sectors', your drive or system must be broken. Try booting into Safe Mode and see if the same thing happens. You could update the firmware on the drive too and see if that fixes anything. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SE-208DB/files.html

Can you post the log from that burn/verify op please? If the drive is vanishing from the system in the middle of an operation, it's either a bad connection (cable etc) or the command is timing out and the system is resetting the bus - causing the disconnect.

I expect the bar you're looking at is actually showing you that you've used up 66% on a standard 80 minute disc. Hover over it and look at the tooltip.

Buy some better discs. Ideally, Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden.

If I really needed to find a drive that could burn slowly, I'd read reviews until I found one. 16x wouldn't be a problem on decent Taiyo Yuden CDs... unless the drive is dirty or just plain faulty.

If you already have a disc and just want to make a copy of it, follow the guide on how to copy a disc. i.e. Read mode and then Write mode.

The only OS's that require ASPI are the really old ones like Windows 95 and 98. XP shouldn't be using ASPI and so simply uninstalling and reinstalling the program (or resetting the settings back to default) would have fixed that and put the I/O interface back on SPTI. Oh and it was a Sunday... a special Sunday known as 'Mother's Day' here in the UK. I try to check in regularly but there are days where I don't want to or can't do that.

Try with some better discs. Cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc may also help.

I would assume it's the date of manufacture (MM/YYYY), but really, you know as much as I do. Not really, no. All you can get is the date/time of building the file system. So if you build and burn at the same time, it'll be fairly accurate.

Do you mean the Log window? Open it via the 'View' menu in the main window.

Given its size, I'm not really sure why you're mounting it anyway? If it isn't a PC game, ignore whatever explorer is telling you its size is (once mounted).

Are you talking about burning to CDs or DVDs? Taiyo Yuden make good CDs, they're all I ever use. You can't know beforehand which speeds your drive will support on a given disc really. You'd need to look at a list provided by the manufacturer for the different MIDs (if such a thing exists) and then try to buy matching discs.

Are you really still using an OS that requires ASPI?!

I guess your playback device can't read them properly.

Use a single layer disc.

It burnt and verified ok.... so there's nothing for me to assist you with. Read the thread I linked you to.