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It works fine on Windows 8. How is the drive connected to the PC?

Can you also post a screenshot of the main window (not obscured by anything) at the point when that I/O error box pops up please? That's not an error you're supposed to be seeing. copy + paste all of the text from the log window at that point too please (assuming you're able to do that)... failing that, a screenshot will do.

Maybe their tool doesn't support the 'upgrade' disc?

My guess is it's having trouble reading the disc. Do you verify your burns? Do you only have one type of 50GB BD-R DL? Posting a burn+verify log may help us help you.

What does the program list for 'Supported Write Speeds' in the box on the right? Whatever's in that box is all the drive/firmware/media combo support.

Sorry, that's not possible, no.

Your drive seems to be having a problem with the disc you've put in it.

I haven't got a clue! If you can run Windows on it or a version of Linux that supports 'wine'... maybe.

You clicked on an advert that downloaded SmartTweak's 'Speed Up My Computer' program. I just ran the file through VirusTotal... it came with a 0/48 detection rate - i.e. *nothing* flagged it. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/01783b290781431a51e658fe2619bb714b534a12916de02a967719cf565b4480/analysis/1380024580/ So what's warning you about something 48 other AV products aren't seeing?! Oh and obviously ImgBurn doesn't contain any malicious code.

Oh, in that case I have no idea. It must be some sort of routing issue between you and the server.

The various 'erase/format' related options are in the Settings on the Write tab. There's a newer version of ImgBurn btw.

Are you getting a message saying you aren't welcome? It's hard to know what to look into if I don't have any info.

If it burnt at 0.9x, you must have formatted it with spare areas enabled, which in turn enabled hardware defect management. When that's enabled, you really shouldn't be having problems reading the disc (i.e. during the verify phase) as the drive's write process is supposed to ensure sectors are readable and remap them if they aren't. I'll await your log...

If the drive supports you messing around with the eeprom settings (as a normal LiteOn or ASUS drive would do), you might be ok. If the drive doesn't support you doing that stuff, you've probably wasted your money on it. Send it back and get a LiteOn?

I doubt that drive can overburn nicely... but of course it stands more of a chance of being able to if you're using Verbatim MKM-003-00 discs.

Reading / verifying / copying are all the same thing. All it's doing is trying to read each sector on the disc - which your drive is unable to do. If the blank discs are ok, maybe the drive is faulty? Your issue has nothing to do with SATA2 or 3. They're backwards compatible anyway.

Can you provide a video or something showing me exactly how to reproduce it? I've tried dropping it down and inserting a disc into the already selected drive - no problem. I've tried dropping it down and inserting a disc into a different drive - no problem. I've tried dropping it down and inserting a disc into the drive I'm changing to - no problem. So it must be more complicated or timing related and I could be there all day trying to reproduce it - which I'm not prepared to do.

The 'Invalid Floating Point Operation' error is caused by a bug in the compiler and it isn't something I can fix without upgrading my version of the development environment to a version that's fixed it. I've never run into it personally. I get bug reports sent to me on a daily basis for the same problem at the exact same line in the code - you're the first person I've told to turn 'Capture Graph Data' off (thus getting passed the line it normally crashes at), but it appears that it then just crashes somewhere else. So at this point, I'm sorry but there's nothing I can do for you.

It has never worked like that. The layer break position you select changes the values shown on that screen.

Try installing the v10.8 Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers instead. SP1 for Windows 7 has been out for ages... install that too.

I'm not sure I see the problem here? It's asking you to pick a layer break position as part of the 'calculate' process. If you cancel out of it, those fields stay as 'Unknown'. Please refer to one of the double layer DVD video guides if you don't know what you're doing.

Moan? I just pointed you to the 'sticky' / 'pinned' thread.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=12200 http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000

The burner. The new drive you purchased might (should) have been ok with decent Verbatim MKM-003-00 media, I can't say for sure that your ageing Sony burner will be. Low quality discs will always be low quality, no matter if you use an old drive or a new one.