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You're only going to get the same response to this as you did your last thread about an unreadable Blu-ray disc. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=20924

AWS isn't a speed, it's a feature - that you have to configure. All you've done there is burn another disc at max speed. Buy the real Verbatim discs with the MKM-003-00 MID.

ImgBurn will never do video encoding.

It doesn't look like your drive can actually overburn DVD+R DL, even if it's technically supported by the tool (in the sense that it doesn't fail). You're using rubbish discs though, buy the Verbatim 8x MKM-003-00 ones as recommended just about everywhere.

Your drive is reporting some variation of a 'write error' when attempting to burn those 'RITEK-S04-66' discs. If it doesn't want to burn them, buy some other ones - as per the thread I linked you to.

Post the log of you burning + verifying the disc please. Oh and this should have been in the 'Support' forum - consider it moved.

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

ImgBurn doesn't do multisession and the discs it burns are always finalised. As such, no, you can't add OR delete files from discs it burns. When you use multisession software for this job, it would just be leaving the file location/size/name etc out of the file system descriptors. It would still be present in the first lot though and therefore totally accessible if anything read them.

You need the controller to be using the 'base' / 'ide' bios before you can then use the base/ide drivers. Obviously you'd just go for the newest version of both - taking into account that the drivers need to be for your OS (i.e. don't get the one specific to Windows 7 etc) I've never tried flashing the bios of an onboard controller as mine have always just been PCI cards.

You can't erase a disc if it isn't a rewritable one in the first place. Put a new disc in the drive, switch to 'Write' mode and then copy + paste everything from the disc info box on the right please.

I don't think it's publicly available yet. Primera have it on their website but it requires a developers SDK account in order to get at it. Vinpower have it but I've heard their support aren't very forthcoming. I've seen threads where other people have received drives already flashed with 1.Z8, so hopefully you'll be ok. Just worry about where you can get it from if you aren't

'CMC MAG-M01-00' discs aren't rewritbable, they're DVD+R discs, not DVD+RW ones.

Ok so what's the Silicon Image controller the Asus is attached to, a PCI card or is it built into the motherboard? Those cards should be flashed with the 'base/IDE' bios and using the 'base' drivers if you're running optical drives from them. http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=63&cat=15 Bios - http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SiI3112_4402all.zip Driver - http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/3x12-x86-1.3.68.2-logo.zip

I'm not sure its creator(s) would want/like me to. Mention it at the TX forums and report back what they say. I actually examined how it worked on the day of it's release (these things always interest me) and was able to reproduce the results via my own code in no time at all - it's surprisingly basic really Of course the vendor unique commands they're using to do this stuff are not something I would or could have ever figured out myself, so I doubt my implementation will ever see the light of day in a public release of ImgBurn. For now it's just a proof of concept that I can mess around with.

As you can clearly see that all of the shortcuts have been created (post #4), it's probably Windows that's removing the 'ImgBurn.exe' one from the 'ImgBurn' program group - no doubt because it's already available at the top level (the icons on the left). It probably checks for duplicates or something.

Oh well, at least the errors are in the same places when verified in different drives... so the problem is with the burning - at least of YUDEN000-T02-00 discs. Do you have others you can try? Right click the drive selection box and click 'Family Tree' for me please. Close the prompt that comes up and then copy + paste everything from the Log window. Do you have the same issue if you burn in safe mode? It looks like the drive automatically changes the booktype to DVD-ROM and that isn't something the program can change. It must be locked down in the firmware.

That log shows you burning at 6x, have you tried 8x too? If you burn the ISO using the Asus drive, does it then verify ok (against the same ISO) in the Pioneer? That'll help us understand if the problem is with the drive reading what it just wrote, or if it's with writing those discs in general. That ASUS is just another Lite-On clone. To be honest, you'd have been better off (where firmware updates / advanced settings are concerned) just buying the actual Lite-On drive in the first place. Is it too late for Newegg to take it back again?

Where are you looking exactly? I see it ok on mine.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. If you want command line stuff, read the ReadMe.txt file.

The brand you're using doesn't really mean anything, it's the MID/dye of the discs that's important and yours is 'RITEKF1'. Ritek are cheapie low quality ones.

An image of your entire c: drive? That's not what ImgBurn is for. Use a proper hard drive tool like Acronis True Image or Macrium Reflect if you want to make a backup.

It means your drive doesn't like the media you're trying to make it burn to. If the other supported write speeds don't work either, buy different (better) discs. Cleaning the drive with a cleaning disc may also help.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=11238

http://www.firmwarehq.com/Asus/BW-12B1ST/files.html ...but there aren't any listed for that model.

There's a newer firmware available for your drive. http://www.firmwarehq.com/Pioneer/BDR-206/files.html Give that a go and if the drive isn't doing a good job of burning those discs at 4x, try the remaining supported speeds. If none of those are any good either, try some different discs.