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Can I get you to right click the drive selection box and pick 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please. You shouldn't be getting an error with 'no additional sense information', so that could be coming from the controller you've attached the drive to (and the real error is being lost somewhere). Otherwise, it's as per the post above.

You can't access it (the auto saved ones) via the Help menu? I can't help you without it.

Post the log please, not a screenshot.

Reinstalling the software does nothing (assuming you haven't followed all the crap advice on the web and messed them around too much). Just leave the settings on their default values and where drive settings are concerned, enable FHT and overspeed if you're using MKM-001-00 discs - then burn at 4x.

If they play as a BD disc in your PS3 (so you aren't having to load a specific file etc), you should be fine.

I'd say there's some issue with your USB adapter / the lead that connects it... you're getting way too many device arrival / disconnects.

Nope (unless you have lots of optical drives - the same number as the number of source discs... plus a burner). You'd have to copy (and combine) the contents of each disc to your hdd and then burn a new disc from that 'big' folder on your hdd.

With that many files (and massive antivirus overhead as it scans each file), I'd probably make an image first on a different hdd to where the photos are stored - that'll be a lot quicker than reading/writing to the same hdd. You could do something like create recovery data (par2 files etc) for the files, or do as you said and zip/rar them up with built in recovery data - I know WinRAR lets you do that.

It doesn't set the speed to anything by default....well ok, I guess it does, but it just defaults to 'MAX' and not any specific speed. You should burn at whichever speed produces the best results - I can't tell you what that is. It also comes down to how quickly you want the disc (time wise).

Yeah, you've basically disabled it so everything runs with Administrator rights. That's why the installer.bat file worked ok for you.

You can put the files where you like, just don't move them once you've registered the file - as the registry will contain paths to where the file (madflac.ax) was originally and the OS will go looking for it there. The install.bat file method won't work if you have UAC enabled. Using the method I detailed in that thread works even with UAC enabled. If it came up saying it registered successfully, I guess you've disabled UAC? The best way to check if it worked is to now just try loading your CUE file again.

ImgBurn doesn't decide anything. If you leave the 'Write Speed' set to AWS, it'll use what you've configured in the 'Automatic Write Speed' feature. If you haven't configured anything for that drive/media combo, it'll use 'MAX'.

Yes, put in your applications folder if you like. You just need to make sure you 'register' it once you've put it there. This thread may help you... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=19500

I always use the default settings.... that's why they're the defaults. If you have to resort to safe mode in order to burn successfully, there's something very wrong with your system. I've never had to do it. As for the burn speed... well that depends on the discs you're using and what the drive offers on them. You should at least be safe at their rated speed. Sometimes faster or slower speeds can actually improve the burn quality, but really that's just down to how the firmware has been tweaked. You'd have to burn a disc at each supported speed, scan the discs (disc quality / PIPO) and see which produced the best result.

No, it's nothing to do with ImgBurn, it's a system wide DirectShow filter. I'm pretty sure that file includes a readme or similar. All it's going to do is allow DirectShow to decode/decompress your Flac files. The process is loss less (the whole idea of Flac). ImgBurn will use the decoded/decompressed data when burning the Audio CD.

If that drive supports it, you should probably do a few quality scans on the ones that don't error out during the write process. Even a seemingly successful burn can be rubbish quality - and the disc will then probably be unreadable in a relatively short period of time.

Drive and media combos aren't just known to be the cause of 'write errors', they're the only things that can cause them! During the burn, all software does is send a chunk of data to the drive, telling it which sector it should write it to.... that's it. It's then 100% down to the drive (and its firmware) to actually burn the data to the disc. If you get a 'write error', the drive had some problem burning to the disc and that can only ever be down to the drive/media combo. If one is good (the media in your case), the other must be bad.

It isn't loaded with anything other than the OpenCandy network plugin. Open the setup exe with 7zip and check for yourself. You're free to opt out of anything that OpenCandy offers you during the normal installation process... I'm sorry you were unable to do that. As a business backed by the likes of Microsoft and Google, I very much doubt OpenCandy would be peddling malware (remember the 'mal' stands for malicious so don't just throw the term around) or viruses.

How are you making an image from a DAT file in the first place? You must be using Build mode and that's just going to end up making you a data disc with the DAT file on it. Stick to the 'burn to CD-R and then make the BIN+CUE using 'Read' mode' method - unless you can find a virtual drive program that supports the DAT files... then you could mount the DAT in the virtual drive and use Read mode to make your BIN+CUE without wasting a disc.

The iHAS124-14 I got recently turned out to be an 'E'. That came from LambdaTek though.

They shouldn't die that quickly, no. As such, just return it under warranty and get them to replace it.

Install the 'madFlac' DirectShow filter, as per the Audio CD guide. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/5555-how-to-write-an-audio-cd-from-music-files-using-imgburn/?p=91374

Your drive doesn't appear to be a big fan of those 'SONY-D21-00' discs. Others may work better... or you could try cleaning the drive.

You just burn everything at the same time. So your DVD slideshow will be a VIDEO_TS folder I assume... and then add your other folders/files around it (not in it). Add all those folders to the 'Source' box in Build mode and make your image/burn to disc.

Try at 8x and/or on some other discs.