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If you would like advice on the problems, please post the logs so we can see what you're working with.

I explained why it takes the time it takes, it formats the discs properly - waiting for both foreground and background bits to finish. Yours only waits for the foreground part to finish and will leave the 'BG Format Status' on '1' (meaning 'started but not running and not complete) rather than '3' (meaning complete). If you don't want it to do that, you can turn off the option in the settings (on the 'Write' tab) that makes it format properly.

Sorry, I wasn't aware it didn't already work like that! That functionality is built into the 'Listview' control used by the lower 'Disc' pane... but the 'Explorer' pane at the top uses a custom control and it has it's version of it disabled by default. I have now enabled it. Alt+Tab should be ok now (in the next release) too.

It's your machine that's stopped processing the I/O and not really anything to do with ImgBurn. It has to wait for the Windows API function it calls for doing I/O to return control to it. All I can suggest is that you try looking for updated firmware for the enclosure chipset and the usb chipset (if it's a 3rd party one - i.e. not Intel or whatever). They obviously also have driver updates for the usb controllers (and even the hubs if you have such things on the board - mine does) - make sure you're running the latest one. Right click the drive selection box and click 'Family Tree'. Close the prompt and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.

If it's telling you that you need to write to a double layer disc, what you're attempting to burn must be too big to fit on a single layer one. As for formatting and then doing nothing, I guess some sort of error occurred. You'd have to show me the log from when that happens.

It takes as long as it takes. The drive does the formatting, not the program. The program (by default anyway) waits for both parts (foreground / background) to finish. It only formats when the 'Formatted' status isn't shown as 'Yes' in the disc info text on the right. In programming terms, that's when 'BG Format Status' isn't 3.

Real tyg02 discs should work fine in just about any drive, they're normally excellent discs. Try burning them at 8x. As you've discovered, turning verify off doesn't make a problem go away. If you're about to get hit by a speeding train, closing your eyes won't make it go away, you just won't see it hit you. Sure, maybe some things are better left unknown but the readability and accuracy of a burn isn't 1 of them. Leave Verify enabled.

Formatting a new DVD+RW disc is normal, that's just how they work. If that doesn't explain what you're seeing, please tell us more about the problem.

Because it's a prompt about the image, not about what your burning settings are. Notice it also pops up when you're creating an image file.

Tons of options are 'hidden' from the main dialog (in that they're on other tabs), I'm not going to add them all (any of them) to that prompt. Sorry.

mount each image (in turn) in a virtual drive and copy the contents to different folders on your hdd. Use whatever tool is appropriate for combining that type of content - Google it. Create a new image / burn a new disc from the combined stuff. Or yeah, just forget about combining them and burn them to their own individual single layer discs.

How were you combining them?! It's not something ImgBurn can do.

You'd have to manually combine the contents of both images, make a new image and then burn that.

Audio discs don't actually have one. If one is being displayed, it's coming from the cdtext info.

Terminate the process/task in task manager and then run imgburn and have it eject the disc.

That workaround was for a totally different issue. Try another disc, that one looks like it has already been used.

Only in the sense the program sends a larger track size value in the reserve track command! You should probably try and give some other discs a shot as there must be an issue somewhere and that's as good a place as any to start. Maybe cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc would help too?

It doesn't... but I can tell from the number of available sectors. The 'Hardware Defect Management Active' line should say 'Yes', but a little cosmetic bug in 2.5.7.0 means that it always says 'No'

Put the disc in the drive, switch to 'Write' mode and then look for 'MID' in the disc info box on the right.

Sorry for not replying to this, it must have been when I was away on holiday. I'm glad you've finally got a working system - even if you're not really sure why it now works

The brand name on the disc doesn't mean anything, it's the MID/dye they use that's important. (That's the 'CMCMAG-DI6-000' bit) Maybe you could locate one of the ones you've burnt before and see if it's the same MID/dye as those? Do you have any DVD-R discs? The program will issue the same 'Reserve Track' command when they're being used. If it doesn't get hung up when using those, your system appears to be able to process the command - meaning it's the drive that's getting hung up on the discs.

I've no idea... but the command hasn't changed. Please right click the drive selection box, click 'Family Tree', close the prompt and then copy + paste everything from the Log window. Are you sure your discs have always been 'CMCMAG-DI6-000' ?

Reserving track is a single command sent to the drive. If your machine won't process it, it could be down to the controller you've attached it to and/or its drivers.

That disc has been formatted with 'spare areas' enabled. When that's the case, the drive's 'defect management' kicks in and basically verifies the disc as it burns - hence the slow down. You'll have to do another full erase/format on it to get rid of them and turn it off.

What does it say it's doing in the status bar? As note for next time... post the entire log please, not just a bit of it - the window scrolls if you hadn't noticed that.