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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.

Your device must have stopped processing commands. Try another cable / USB socket etc. if you unplug the drive once it has got itself in that state, I expect ImgBurn will throw up an error. It hasn't frozen, it's just waiting for your drive (or system as a whole) to finish processing the command it sent.

Are you 100% sure that's a new (never attempted to use it before) disc?! The free capacity on it is exactly the same as the source image you're trying to burn... and I really can't see that ever happening. So try some other discs... try every disc in the spindle. If they all come up saying they only have '452 096' sectors free, something is broken somewhere.

That isn't the complete log. Please ensure you post the full thing... including the 'Verify' stage. If you've turned that off, turn it on again. If the disc burns and verifies ok, read this... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200

Put a new disc in and copy + paste the disc information from the box on the right of the main window please. Whatever the problem is, I very much doubt it's anything to do with ImgBurn. It'll be some issue with your drive/firmware/media combo. TYG02 are great discs though... so unless they're fake, I don't know why they'd be to blame.

Where's the log of you actually trying to burn the disc? Update ImgBurn too, we don't support old versions.

Your drive isn't seeing that disc correctly (at its full capacity). Try another new disc.

Try the other supported write speeds and/or get different discs... I recommend Taiyo Yuden CDs, they're all I ever use.

If you have a problem, post the log please - as per the pink box up the top