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What USB controller do you have? Is it off the motherboard chipset or a 3rd party chipset? (Is it still just the Intel Z77 boards that have native USB 3?) Does anything get written into eventviewer for the device that's removing itself from the system?

No change if you hit the retry button? What controller is the drive attached to? Going by the 'Hint', it looks like it could be a driver issue.

Your drive is erroring out during the burn and reporting a 'Write Error' - so it's having trouble burning to the discs you're using. LTH media might be cheaper than the HTL stuff but it also fails more frequently. Formatting the disc with spare areas enabled will enable the drives 'hardware defect management' and may help get you a decent burn (it should remap any bad sectors to another 'reserved' area on the disc). It will slow the write speed down a bit (due to the automatic write verification) and mean you have slightly less available space on the disc though. Using the Incremental write type instead of DAO/SAO may also make a difference - sometimes it's better, sometimes it's worse.

You've got an old version of the Rapid Storage Technology driver installed there. You might like to update to the latest version - http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21408&keyword=%22rapid%22&lang=eng

DMG files aren't supported, so I'm afraid the answer is No.

There shouldn't be any difference between 2 and 6. There's certainly no difference in what ImgBurn would have done at each stage.

You don't need to touch anything to do with the booktype stuff, ImgBurn handles it automatically (changing it to DVD-ROM) for most drives (including yours). The log of any burn to a DVD+R / DVD+R DL disc will be enough for us to look at and see if it's working ok.

There is no difference between the two and I couldn't make your drive error out like that even if I wanted to - it has complete control over the success / failure of the burn.

If your drive is having problems burning to those 'RITEK-BR2-000' MID discs at 'Maximum' (10x) speed, try slowing the 'Write Speed' down a bit to 4x, 8x etc. Same goes for the 'VERBAT-IMc-000' MID discs. Can you also please right click the drive selection box when you're in Write mode and pick the 'Family Tree' option. Close the prompt that pops up and copy + paste everything from the Log window.

If you need to go the PCI card route, get a Silicon Image 3512 chipset based card and put the drive on that. I'm not a fan of any non Intel chipset controller really.

This probably isn't the best place to ask such questions. You want a home cinema forum/website for that - or read a home cinema magazine and look at the reviews.

Try installing this Intel driver package. http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21594&lang=eng If that doesn't work, try this one... http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18033&ProdId=2205&lang=eng Once you've done that, try the 3rd one down here... http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20768&lang=eng

We need the log showing the error please.

If it worked fine and now doesn't, assuming your media is still ok (good quality/condition and the same MID that previously worked fine), your drive is probably at fault. Cleaning it with a cleaning disc may help but it could also need replacing if it has broken. Don't take the fact it can still burn CDs as a sign it *isn't* broken... that often happens - burning CDs is much easier.

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

It looks like you've attached your drive to a bad controller (one that isn't optical drive friendly). Hopefully your board has another one... attach the drive to that instead. Beyond that, we'd need to know more about your motherboard - i.e. which make/model it is so we can work out which chipsets are available on it.

You're doing very well for a non English speaking person. I just wanted to make sure I understood (correctly) what it was that you were asking. You have a choice to make. Either... you have spare areas enabled and lose some of the available discs space - but the disc plays OR you have spare areas disabled and can write bigger images to the disc - but the disc doesn't play I'm afraid you can't have it both ways! Well, I guess you could always buy another player that doesn't have the problem your Samsung one has. What was the problem with the newer firmware for the Samsung player? Maybe this issue has been fixed? If it hasn't, tell them about it so that it can be. Going by the sizes you posted, I'd say the BD-RE DL has been formatted with spare areas enabled.

That's just the way things sometimes work I'm afraid. When reading from a network drive (more often than a local drive), you may want to enable the OS's buffering via the 'Reading - Always Use Buffered I/O' option in the Settings (on the I/O tab).

Does that translate to something roughly like - 'how do I recover the space that has been taken up by the spare areas so I can burn a larger ISO to my BD-RE again?' ? Answer: Full erase it again having enabled the option to format without spare areas.

You're going to have to take this up with Samsung.

Does your Samsung say it plays BD-RE 25GB discs? If it's playing the 50GB ones ok, I'd assume it should be able to handle the 25GB ones too. Maybe it requires the discs to be formatted with spare areas enabled (or disabled) ? Is the firmware on your burner and player up to date? To me, it sounds like you should be asking Samsung why their player won't play content on a BD-RE 25GB disc that works just fine on other discs.

The first error is the real one. So basically, your drive said it couldn't write to the disc (for whatever reason). Update the firmware on your drive and try burning at the other supported write speeds. http://www.firmwarehq.com/LG/WH10LS30/files.html

You don't. Extract the contents of said ISO files and merge them via whatever means is required to have them functional, then make a new ISO.

It's probably due to the media you're burning it to (DVD+R instead of DVD-R?) and because your drive is rounding up the number of sectors being burnt to the nearest 16 (1 ECC block).

Unless you're just backing up the ISO file to a disc, there's only 1 way of burning it...using Write mode (write image file to disc).