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ImgBurn doesn't have any such option. If you'd read the page properly, I'm sure you'd have seen it was offering you a 3rd party program (that's what the OpenCandy platform does) and you picked to do an 'express install' of that 3rd party app.

What did you install? I'm as honest about things as I can be. I have no idea what you're talking about and I very much doubt OpenCandy would be offering you something that stops your machine from booting... how would that help anyone?!

That error (or lack or real error) is usually caused by the driver for the controller the drive is attached to. Right click the drive drop down selection box when you're in 'Write' mode and click 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt and then copy + paste everything from the Log window.

Go into Write mode or whatever... ensure you've selected the right drive and then do... Tools -> Drive -> Close Track/Session/Disc That's all you can do in ImgBurn.

Usually when this happens, it's either the drivers for your SATA controller or the drive is having problems with the discs. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

You don't (can't) do anything with the layer break on BD discs and there's no difference in what ends up on the disc if you burn files directly to it, or wrap them up in an ISO first and then burn it.

I guess the ImgBurn step is normally done for you by a 3rd party program? There's a BD Video guide in the Guides forum.

Because it reads from the middle to the outer edge and then the outer edge to the middle. Assuming the disc is always spinning at a constant speed, the transfer rate increases as you go from the middle of the disc to the outer edge of the disc - the opposite is therefore true when going from the outer edge to the middle.

Rather than clicking the 'write files/folders to disc' button on the initial screen, use the 'create image file from files/folders' one. Or just change the 'Output' to 'Image File' in the menu at the top.

Sorry, I've no idea what's going on there. It's much easier to troubleshoot these things if you make an image rather than burning files on the fly. I don't know how it's possible to have so many miscompares unless the files on the hdd have changed between burning / verification, you've got serious corruption in memory/on the sata bus, or something is modifying the data read from the drive on the fly (AnyDVD type program).

It sounds like you have something else wrong if your entire machine is freezing. Maybe you could gain access to them by booting into safe mode? (Google will tell you how to do that if you don't know) I certainly wouldn't be writing them off just yet, but it depends on how much time you're willing to spend getting to the root of the problem. The commands used to format discs are detailed in the MMC specs. ImgBurn will only be using the same one (or slight variation so it formats fully/properly) that the other programs will be using. ImgBurn submits the command to the drive and the drive then goes off and does all the work. ImgBurn just sits there waiting for it to finish. It's only back in control when it starts to 'zero' the sectors on the BD-RE disc (basically just writing a bunch of zeros to them all). If you want ImgBurn to behave more like other programs and just do a quick and dirty format, disable the 'Prefer Format With Full Certification' and 'Prefer Properly Formatted Discs' options on the 'Write' tab in the 'Settings'.

You can format quickly or you can format properly. ImgBurn defaults to doing it properly. When you say your PC crashes, what exactly do you mean? Blue screen of death? You can't ruin a BD-RE disc (unless your drive seriously messed it up), just format it again. It would be useful to see a log file of you formatting / writing one of the discs. Even just seeing the disc info from the box on the right would help. Maybe that info from one of your old discs and again from your new ones so I can see what the MID changed to. MIDs are not something software has to worry about. Knowing how to burn a specific disc is the job of the drive's firmware/chipset and nothing to do with software.

Post the log(s) please.

You should do the firmware update first, it's where a fix to this problem would have to come from. The 'Write Speed' option is there on the page where you select your ISO and click the big 'Write' button. You can't miss it if you look for it. There's some issue with your current drive/firmware/media combo so one or more of those needs to be changed in order to get things working as they should do.

That appears to be a PayPal bug. I'd expect the list of possible options in the 'County' field to change when I go between say 'United Kingdom' and 'United States', but it doesn't. Until they fix the bug, a workaround would be to create an actual PayPal account at http://www.paypal.com/ and then just enter your login / password on the donation screen. I don't know why your email would fail to be delivered - assuming you were sending it to a valid address!

Can I assume the disc doesn't work... or at least not in your burner? Try updating the firmware on your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Samsung/SE-208AB/files.html Try burning at 4x if 'MAX' (8x) doesn't work. Try with some other (better) blank discs.

Sorry, I have no control over that one, it's actually a bug in my development environment. Chances are, your disc is fine. The bug usually occurs between the write and verify phases.

I'm pretty sure this is actually just a case of the user needing a double layer BD disc (50GB) rather than a single layer one (25GB).

I figured as much Glad you got to the bottom of it.

It would appear there's something wrong with your J: drive.

*sigh* 12 posts of me repeating myself and us not getting anywhere. It's just a file extension. It doesn't matter if you name it image.bin or image.iso, when reading a DVD/HD DVD/BD disc you'll end up with identical files. Why can't you just let the program pick the correct one? That's assuming the 'Default Destination' setting for 'Read' mode is left on 'Automatic'. Why must you mess around with things you don't understand?! For CDs, the program defaults to/use .ISO when reading a single session/track disc with a Mode 1 data track. For all other CDs it'll default to/use .BIN. For DVD/HD DVD/BD it'll default to/use .ISO. I won't repeat that again - especially as it appears to be going in one ear and out of the other. Take my advice or do whatever you want to do.

img and bin are basically the same thing. They typically contain CD 2352 byte sectors and are just raw dumps of the disc. It's the CUE / CCD files that go along with them that make them work for certain programs. ISO is / should be reserved for 2048 byte sectors - it's *far* more common and better suited to basic data CDs and all DVD/HD DVD/BD discs. I never said the program would stop you from giving your DVD image file the .bin extension, what you name your file is down to you. It only tries to stop you when (as you said), you try and save a multi session / track CD (i.e. an Audio CD) with the .ISO file extension... because that'll never work on its own, you *need* a CUE/CCD file to go with it.

Use a double layer disc or shrink your source image - if that's possible.

Please just confirm something for me... Your drive with the same DVD+R media works fine in another PC? Have you tried booting your machine to safe mode and burning one of the DVD+R discs that usually fail? I do have a tool that can be used to log all of the I/O on a machine, I can send an end user version of it over to you via email if you're happy to do that. Do any of those other burning tools cycle the drive tray between write and verify operations? If not, try turning that option off on the 'write' tab in ImgBurn's settings.