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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.

If your drive is failing to burn various different disc MIDs, it's probably the drive at fault.

It's something to do with your Samsung DVD-rom drive. As the log gets as far as showing the device Id and the next line should be about the drive letter, I guess the message in the status bar is something along those lines? ('Getting drive letter...') Which controller is your samsung dvd rom drive on?

cda files don't really exist, they're just something windows displays to the end user. To burn music files in Audio CD format, follow this guide... http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/5555-how-to-write-an-audio-cd-from-music-files-using-imgburn/

If it's showing a % and that % hasn't changed in a long time, your drive must have given up/got stuck. ImgBurn isn't actually doing anything other than querying the drive each second to see if it's still busy formatting and if so, how far it's got. I'd probably reboot and try again if I were you. Can I get you to post the 'family tree' info for your drive please? Right click the drive selection box when you're in Write mode and click 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window. Thanks.

Sometimes opencandy can offer 2 things, you must have missed the opt-out option for one of them.

You had the option to opt out of installing whatever opencandy offered you, you just didn't.

Ok, I'm sure you know a lot more about this stuff than I do. *sigh*

Do you have any idea what you installed? I have no idea what you were offered and didn't opt-out of. I can't see that anything would survive a format and reinstall of Windows... maybe your problem lies elsewhere?

Not that ImgBurn supports reading it from, no. You can embed the CUE in a FLAC though...so if you're looking to tidy things up on your hdd and only have a single file (I guess that's where you're coming from with this question yeah?), that's one way to do it.

I don't mean that kind of overburning. All drives will fail to do that on DVD+R DL media. I'm talking about the ones that can make a disc look bigger than it usually is and therefore burn oversized amounts of data without any overburn/truncate prompt.

Autorun.inf would be a good start.

Make an autorun.inf file (find the syntax of the file via Google search) and burn it to the disc alongside the exe using Build mode (write files/folders to disc).

If your drive just keeps erroring out with a 'write error' when you try and burn those 'CMC' MID discs, invest in some other / better ones. That image could actually go on a CD if you have any of those lying around.

Look at the media documentation for your drive - I.e. Over at the LG website. The only ones I've seen that did 16x were some with a 'sony' MID.

The speeds are down to the drive, firmware and media combo. ImgBurn has no say in the matter. Decent discs are often supported at speeds beyond what's specified on the packaging, but that varies from drive to drive.

It really doesn't matter what else I use within the installer, people always complain. I went through the exact same thing when I bundled the Ask.com toolbar 3 or so years ago. I'm forever being asked to install toolbars, browsers and any number of other programs by various bits of software I install or update (Java, most Adobe freeware etc) but I don't care because it takes 2 seconds to opt out and then I can use said software an unlimited number of times without ever seeing another advert/offer. It's a small price to pay. The whole world revolves around the 'small print', people should be more than used to it by now. If you feel you want to stop using ImgBurn on principle, that's your loss and I hope you manage to find a similar piece of software that's 100% free of offers/adverts in its installer.

AWS means the AWS feature is active. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?/topic/4249-how-to-use-the-automatic-write-speed-aws-feature-in-imgburn/ What does the box say that's popping up? If you cancel out of it, you should still have extra bits in the log that'll help me see what's going on.

Update 1... The ISO burnt and verified fine with an LG BH12LS38 FW:1.02-D0 on a Verbatim BD-RE. It played perfectly (I tried every chapter) in a Sony BDP-S570 and Sony PS3. It also played in PowerDVD 11 and TMT 5 on the PC. Update 2... The BDMV folder burnt and verified fine with an LG BH12LS38 FW:1.02-D0 on a Verbatim BD-RE. It played perfectly (I tried every chapter) in a Sony BDP-S570 and Sony PS3. It also played in PowerDVD 11 and TMT 5 on the PC.