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You seem to have missed my point. The LiteOn iHES312 is NOT a CD/DVD/Blu-ray burner, it's a Blu-ray *reader* and CD/DVD burner. That's to say, it can *read* Blu-ray discs but it can't write them. The iHBSxxx drives are the Blu-ray burners. Maybe you can exchange yours for one of those?

Your drive can't write Blu-ray discs, only read them.

http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=8000 p.s. you aren't using the latest version of the program.

M-Disc is the new 'long life' media. http://millenniata.com/

I don't think Optiarc existed before Sony got their hooks into it Optiarc was the new name given to the NEC/Sony collaboration wasn't it?

Most drives only change the booktype on DVD+RW media when they format it. Simply writing to it isn't enough and obviously formatting the disc wipes the data on it so you can't do it after you've written to it.

AHCI mode on an Intel chipset motherboard with recent Rapid Storage Tech drivers isntalled should be able to support the bitsetting commands just fine... I don't know about other chipsets. Otherwise, yeah, you should be able to take a DVD+RW with its booktype set to DVD-ROM and burn it on the LG.

Can you try the drive back in another PC? Can you try that other drive in this PC? Your drive is just reporting a 'write error' as it tries to burn the disc. In theory, that can only be caused by your drive/firmware/media combo. Have you tried Taiyo Yuden CDs? They are by far the best.

All we really needed was a copy of the log - it's much better and easier to deal with Forget about using the UME MID discs, you want the proper MKM-001/003 stuff. Your drive is having trouble writing to what you're using now.

You didn't really answer my questions... language barrier maybe? Anyway, I hope you understood what I said and the point I was trying to make.

How many times has it failed to burn a *new* disc? Have you tried burning at 6x and 8x too? Notice your selected speed of 2.4x isn't even an option for that drive/firmware/media combo so the drive uses 4x instead. btw, you should install service pack 1 for Windows 7.

Stop using the Patin Couffin I/O interface and go back to SPTI. 99.9% of the 'magic' fixes you read on Youtube are complete nonsense. You should also have updated your Windows 7 installation to Service Pack 1 by now. That log is just another 'RITEK-S04-66' MID disc (2 in fact)... same as your initial log. The brand name (Imation, Maxell etc) is not important, the MID is.

That log doesn't show an error message. The version of ImgBurn you have installed makes no difference to your drives ability to burn discs (that's controlled by its firmware) - put the latest version back on. Service Pack 2 is available for Windows Vista (and has been for years now), you should install it.

Try cleaning your drive with a cleaning disc. Don't try and burn single layer discs at 2x, use something like 8x instead. Don't try and reuse a disc that has previous failed to burn. If the drive continues to fail burning various discs (even after cleaning it), treat yourself to a new one.

Stick with the default one - SPTI, it's built into the OS. TY are great for CDs and DVDs but if all their BD discs are LTH, I'd probably steer clear of them and stick with some decent HTL stuff instead.

TTG02 is not a MID of a rewritable disc, it's an 8x DVD-R. DVD-R can't be erased, they're 'write once' media.

Post the logs from the new failed burns please. To me it seems your drive is failing to burn just about everything - time to invest in a new one?

You may find the 1.06 firmware has no (or just limited) support for the 'JVC-AM-S6L-001' MID... I really couldn't tell you. The supported speeds are from the drive/firmware/media combo though - ImgBurn just reports what the drive tells it. Are you using ElbyCDIO because of 'non admin' user permissions in XP?

Try it in safe mode and see if you have the same problem. It must be something installed/running on your PC because it's working fine for me and you appear to be the only person with the issue.

Click the Erase button in the Destination box when you're in Write/Build (Device)/Discovery mode. Or right click the drive selection box -> Erase -> Full or Tools -> Drive -> Erase -> Full

You could try deleting both of those filters using the same feature within ImgBurn, reboot and give it another go.

ImgBurn will never do any of that, sorry. I'm not interested in video encoding/conversion and know nothing about it.

Is the motherboard running the latest BIOS? There's an F12 version available here... http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html or http://www.station-drivers.com/page/gigabyte/ga-z77x-ud5h_wb_wifi.htm I guess it would make sense to backup/save/take a picture of/write down the current settings, install the F12 BIOS and then do a complete CMOS reset so it's back at factory defaults. If you still have the same problem after that, at least it's not due to anything you/scan have done.

Yes, you'd have to uncheck that box and then do a full erase on your BD-R discs. After that you'll be able to burn to it as you normally would - but again, it'll have less free space and should take longer to burn.

Please don't write off the info contained in that thread (try actually following some of the recommendations), it's based on years of experience and is key to finding a solution to the problems you're having. If there wasn't a continuous stream of problems seen with the cheaper DL discs, there would have been no reason for me to make that thread in the first place. Right click the drive selection box in ImgBurn (when in Write mode), pick 'Family Tree', close the prompt and then copy + paste everything from the Log window please.