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Your drive is just generally moaning about what's being asked of it. Is it just 1 of the 4 drives that's failing to burn? Here's what I'd try (make 1 change at a time until it works again)... 1. Change the burn speed to 8x. 2. Try enabling the 'perform opc before write' option. 3. Try changing the 'write type' to 'incremental'. Personally, I'd never use any discs with the low quality 'CMC' MID/dye, but that's your call.

Empty folders *are* included. Look in the Log window, maybe they're being excluded for another reason (like they're System or Hidden ones and the option to include such files/folder isn't checked).

I still have no idea Only the manufacturers (firmware writers) could tell you that.

No, sorry. If you want to shrink a BD movie, take a look at BD Rebuilder, ClownBD or the DVDFab suite.

It isn't a LiteOn drive, you can't really expect the LiteOn commands to work. Post the log of you burning and verifying such a disc/image.

I'm sure the LiteOn can... and it'll be done automatically. Not sure about the LG.

It's your drive that reports those values. Copy + paste the disc info from the box on the right for when your drive reports it correctly / misreports it.

As it's just 1 error in each of the failed (miscompared) sectors, I'd actually assume this is a memory fault on your PC. Try running memtest86+ on it or something for a few passes. http://www.memtest.org

Your drive reported a 'Write Error'... so it had a problem burning to the discs you're using. Yeah it could be the drive itself but as 'UME' discs are low quality, I'd start by trying some decent ones first.

I meant you can't use them until they've been formatted. Once that has been done, the disc status goes from saying the disc is empty to saying it's complete... and you can never make it 'empty' again*.

A very common firmware bug then - hahaha Some work fine, I remember seeing it with my own eyes. It could also depend on which type of media is being erased/formatted. Either way, the % complete is returned by the drive - with the exception of a quick erase on DVD+RW and BD-RE media, where ImgBurn is just zeroing the first few hundred sectors.

Sorry, I don't really know (as it's not something I have to concern myself with). It's probably done as part of the format.

The % values come from the drive. It's probably a firmware bug.

Remember that DVD+RW are already formatted and ready for writing. I don't really know when the drive has finished doing the LeadIn bit, I just made ImgBurn say it's writing that until it has sent more data to the drive than the drive claims it can fit in its buffer.

Can you just copy + paste the stuff from the Log window please. Screenshots are so much harder to deal with. One of them shows you're using 'UME' discs... they're rubbish, buy some better ones.

That would be down to your playback device.

Your drive can't burn DVDs, it can only read them (and burn CDs).

I don't know. Not really, but trying it on a Silicon Image chipset based card on your PC (or via USB -> SATA adapter) is a good start. Doing so takes the Nvidia stuff out of the equation, but obviously keeps everything else (OS / software) the same. Alternatively, try and get it working via Ubuntu and Wine... but still on your NVidia controller. See above.

It isn't really burning the CUE at all in that write mode, just the files. TAO is rubbish and you'll end up with a disc with forced 2 second gaps between tracks (plus the silence on the end of the files that's meant to be the gaps between tracks - so up to 4 seconds in some cases) and no CD-TEXT.

The old version probably would have just written 2352 byte sectors to the file (because that's what Mode 2 stuff uses). Maybe renaming the file to *.BIN (or *.IMG) would help? It all depends on how those programs you mentioned deal with such file types. ISO files should be 2048 bytes really (Mode 1) and you shouldn't have ever been using ISO for the file extension of Mode 2 CD dumps. There's no flag to automate that conversion prompt, no. I will add one for you though. /CONVERTMODE2TOMODE1 'YES' will convert to Mode 1 and continue to save as *.ISO, 'NO' will rename the file to *.BIN.

Hmm I can't actually see any problem with that. Can you please get him to update the firmware on his drive to the current version (from 1.00 to 1.06) and try again? http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/GSA-H55N/files.html

That's what I'd have suggested Glad you got it sorted.

Once you've loaded that CUE into Write mode, can you please click the 'View Image Information' button (A disc with a question mark on it in the 'Source' box) and post up some screenshots that let me see everything in the box (it scrolls).

CDA files don't really exists. They're just little pointers to the CDDA sectors on the disc that Windows displays when you browse an audio cd. Rip and convert your disc with something like Exact Audio Copy (EAC)