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In the drive's firmware, yeah.

I'll look into it. That said, according to the MMC-6 specs, a drive that can't write to the inserted media should report the disc status as 'Complete', not 'Empty'. If it was 'Complete', ImgBurn wouldn't have enabled the 'Write' button in the first place.

If I look into it and I can work out with 100% certainty that the disc in the drive can't be written to by the drive, yeah I can block it. Nope, it's not bad for the hardware. It knows it can't write to whatever is inside the drive tray and just errors out - as was the case in this thread.

Honestly... I've never really played with combo drives or made any attempt at blocking anything within the program. I always try and leave it down to the user to decide what they want to do / not do and then the drive has the final say in what's actually possible / not possible.

Ok so here's an *untested* attempt at what *should* be required for it. First, create a plain old Audio CD CUE file via the 'Create CUE' feature. This is just the stuff that'll be playable in any CD player. Load the CUE into Write mode and take note of the number of sectors in the 'Source' box. Now add 11400 to that value and enter it into the 'Image Start LBA' box on the 'Build' tab in the 'Settings. Build your data ISO with the MP3 files in it. This will be the bit your computer will see. Now go back to the 'Create CUE' feature, recreate your Audio CD exactly as before, but this time, add a 2nd session and put your data ISO in it. Burn that new CUE and see if it works. Don't forget to reset the 'Image Start LBA' back to 0 or all future ISOs you build will be useless.

I can't imagine for 1 second that connecting the drive to the Marvell controller is doing something as specific as changing the drive ID to 'TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-116AB', and if you google 'SH-116AB' you'll see that it's just a basic DVD-ROM drive and it can't burn anything. Have you perhaps have just made a mistake in which drive you've reconnected? The program is functioning fine and you don't want or need 'Show All Devices' enabled. That 'TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-116AB' isn't listed as a writer because it isn't one - it's as simple as that. If you're expecting *more* than 1 physical drive to show up in ImgBurn, that's when you *do* have a problem - as the OS is only telling it about 1 of them (plus your virtual drive). So... do you have 2 physical optical drives connected to the machine?

I'm not sure I understand?! What the program is listing there is clearly just a DVD-ROM drive, it can't burn anything. So the reason ImgBurn doesn't list it as a writer is because it isn't one! I suggest you revert the 'Show All Devices' setting back to where it was.

If you could post some sort of log, it would help.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=61

Put a non blank disc in it.

That's a 'Combo' drive, it can *read* Blu-ray discs but it can't *write* to them.

That's a 'Combo' drive, it can *read* Blu-ray discs but it can't *write* to them.

It seems I do because you don't get the hint otherwise. You could find the answers to probably 95% of the questions you ask on here if you just did a quick search on Google. For someone that's meant to be computer literate, it should be second nature to you - hell, even my smallest niece can manage that and she's 7! You want to learn stuff, I want you to learn stuff, but spoon feeding is not something anyone wants to do. Start using that brain of yours and do your own research. It's FAR more rewarding to figure stuff out for yourself, plus you're more likely to retain the knowledge that way (and you avoid asking silly questions). Right, school's over for the day. On the plus side, you did at least post this thread in the 'Chat' section. Well done and thank you, it makes a change!

That's just Windows messing around. You must have used something on E: at some point and that drive is no longer valid/available but Windows is still trying to look at it and is throwing up that error.

It's a (*the*) professional tool, of course it's not free. A 3 second search on Google found me a price list (dated 2010) from somewhere selling various versions and they range from about $5k to $20k.

I've moved them around a bit so it makes more sense.

The drive is doing all the work here, so either it has an issue with the media you're using or something weird on your system (drivers etc) is making it look like it's still busy doing it. Try doing a full erase on the disc and then give it another go.

Run Microsoft's 'Fix It' utility and see if that sorts things out. http://support.microsoft.com/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems/en

Nope, they'd only load what's in the BDMV folder.

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

It's not designed for backing up 'in use' files on your hard drive. Firefox is obviously using that file and modifying it, thereby changing its size away from what ImgBurn had originally been told it was. If you want to backup your hard drive, I'd always recommend a proper hard drive backup tool - i.e. Acronis True Image, Macrium Reflect etc.

If that doesn't work, something else has already got control of your drive and is preventing ImgBurn from accessing it.

It has nothing to do with what you're burning. Your drive is just having trouble burning to those discs.

If everything was fine, you wouldn't be here. The advice is all there in that thread, you can do with it as you please.

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