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There's nothing wrong with it. I don't know why you're having this issue (I certainly don't) but seeing as it's downloaded and used by hundreds of thousands of people, I think we'd have heard about it before now if it was real. It doesn't use or go anywhere near the 'Microsoft Installer', so it can't possibly mess it up.

The problem appears to be with the 'Read Disc Information' command. It keeps failing for some reason. Have you tried booting into safe mode to see if the same thing happens? What chipset does your laptop use? A driver update may fix the issue.

Use a new disc, not one you've tried (and failed) to write to before.

Post the log please (as per the pink box up the top), not a screenshot. I doubt your drive will support overburning DVD+R DL discs nicely. Buy the correct hardware... and while you're at it, buy decent discs. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

Install the current release and try again. Copy + paste everything from the Log window once you have please.

It can do it from a CD. You can tidy up DVD/HD DVD/BD discs by pointing Build mode a your drive (as the 'source' I mean) and making a new image.

Yes, they're for CD-TEXT. If you don't want 100% accurate CD-TEXT on your burnt copy (because some is also in the CUE in plain text format), just remove the reference to the CDT file from the CUE file.

That's why I said in my first reply to show us a burn log once you've started using decent media.

Yes

Tools -> Settings -> General -> Page 2.

No, just leave it on whatever the program selects for you unless you have a specific reason to change it. As you don't know where the others would be used (or be useful), you obviously have no reason to select them. The program will use '.ISO' for single session/track 'Mode 1/2048' CDs and '.BIN' (with an accompanying '.CUE' file) for all other CDs. It'll use '.ISO' for all DVD / HD DVD / BD.

Your drive probably can't overburn properly. Just because the payload tool seems to work doesn't mean overburning will actually work.

You should stick to using LiteOn iHAS (A, B, C, D, E or clone version) drives if you're going to be attempting to overburn DVD+R DL discs, they're the only ones that really work properly.* * The exception to that is the special Optiarc 5280S-CB-PLUS/ROBOT drives. The discs you burnt are useless, throw them in the bin.

Ignore it.

That drive can't overburn DVD+R DL discs.

Don't trim the log please, post the full thing. Install the SB01 firmware update and show us a burn log on some decent Verbatim / Taiyo Yuden discs. If it can't burn those at 8x, your drive is probably faulty.

Sorry, I can't do anything about it if your system doesn't respond correctly or at all to that command. I don't know why it's having a problem processing it either. Boot into safe mode and see if the same thing happens.

It is making an ISO just fine. You've got WinRAR associated with ISO files. Turn on the showing of file extensions within Explorer and tell WinRAR not to associate itself with ISO files.

img is the same as bin too. Some people just like the img extension over the bin one. 'All files' isn't a file type at all, it just lets you see all of the files in the folder you've navigated to rather than just the iso, img or bin files (depending on what's selected in the 'save as type' drop down box).

The 'wav' one is there for people making images from CD Audio discs. It's basically just the same as a BIN file but with a WAVE file header stuck on the front of it so you can double click it and play it in a media player. It would play the entire disc as if it were a single track though.

Sorry, what's the problem here exactly? That it never finished the 'Sync Cache' bit? All ImgBurn does at this point is send the sync cache command and then poll the drive every second to see if it has finished doing it. Press the F8 key when it's been doing it for a while and see if ImgBurn is still polling ok. You'll see a bunch of log entries being added every second. Normally when a drive (system) keeps doing that forever with no change, it's due to bad drivers. You could try enabling the 'Don't Use Immediate I/O' option in the settings. That'll tell ImgBurn to send the sync cache command and set a flag saying not to return control to the program until the drive has finished processing it.

BD Disc Information (L0): Disc ID: MEI-T01-001 Disc Type: BD-RE Disc Size: 120mm Disc Class: 0 Disc Version: 2 Disc Time Stamp: 12/2005 Number of Layers: 2 Layer Type: Rewritable DVD Layer Present: No CD Layer Present: No Channel Bit Length: 74.5nm (25GB Per Layer) BCA Present: Yes Maximum Transfer Rate: Not Specified First PAA of Data Zone: 131,072 Last PAA of Data Zone: 1,658,494

You don't need to view the sectors, just look at the LBA address column.

No, afaik it's just for LabelFlash.